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    The Cultural Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval in China from 1966 to 1976 that was launched by Mao Zedong to reassert control over the government and purge capitalist and traditional elements from society. Schools were shut down, economic growth slowed, and many historical and cultural sites were destroyed. Leaders like Liu Shaoqi were removed from power and imprisoned. Students formed Red Guard groups initially to criticize the education system but later engaged in violent armed conflicts that led to thousands of casualties. The Cultural Revolution had devastating long-term impacts on Chinese society.

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    The Cultural Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval in China from 1966 to 1976 that was launched by Mao Zedong to reassert control over the government and purge capitalist and traditional elements from society. Schools were shut down, economic growth slowed, and many historical and cultural sites were destroyed. Leaders like Liu Shaoqi were removed from power and imprisoned. Students formed Red Guard groups initially to criticize the education system but later engaged in violent armed conflicts that led to thousands of casualties. The Cultural Revolution had devastating long-term impacts on Chinese society.

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    The Cultural Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval in China from 1966 to 1976 that was launched by Mao Zedong to reassert control over the government and purge capitalist and traditional elements from society. Schools were shut down, economic growth slowed, and many historical and cultural sites were destroyed. Leaders like Liu Shaoqi were removed from power and imprisoned. Students formed Red Guard groups initially to criticize the education system but later engaged in violent armed conflicts that led to thousands of casualties. The Cultural Revolution had devastating long-term impacts on Chinese society.

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    Eric Yan

    Ms. Vitale
    Modern World History
    2021.05.31
    The Dark Period of Modern China
    Through the process of historical evolution, the power or organizational structure
    changed again and again. In these changes of power, the revolution played a fundamental and
    decisive role. The major features of Revolutions are the fundamental and relatively sudden
    change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts
    against the particular political party. Revolution can bring qualitative changes to society, and this
    change can be positive or negative. There is a gap in the chapter on modern history in Chinese
    history textbooks and people don’t want to recall the daunting harm and impact it brings to the
    entire society. It is the darkest moment in modern China -- the Cultural Revolution.
    The Cultural Revolution was launched in China in 1966 by Communist leader Mao
    Zedong in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.1 It revealed the struggle
    of the Chinese Communist Party against capitalism. The intention of starting the Cultural
    Revolution was to restore socialism by cleansing the state, the party and society of bourgeois and
    reactionary elements.2 The Cultural Revolution is called the darkest moment of modern China.
    During the Cultural Revolution, all the schools were shut down, the economic growth slowed
    down, countless properties were destroyed, and the leaders of the country dissented. During this
    early phase of the Cultural Revolution (1966-68), President Liu Shaoqi and other Communist
    leaders were removed from power. (Beaten and imprisoned, Liu died in prison in 1969.)3 The
    most affected group must be those who were in school, including students, scholars, and
    teachers. The number of writers, scholars and people in the art world who died unexpectedly in
    the ten-year catastrophe is staggering, shocking, and perhaps unique in the history of the world.
    During the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, all school entrance examinations were
    suspended. School was not admitting students. Under the circumstances at the time, the Red
    Guards came into being. The Red Guards consisted of the students. At the beginning, the Red
    Guards protest and march was still more civilized. Their goal was to criticize the educational
    system through propaganda. They were opposed to the bourgeoisie which opposed academic
    authority. The manifestation of the Cultural Revolution was mainly based on eloquence rather
    than violence. Later on, Mao Zedong met the Red Guards eight times in 1966, which opened the
    prelude to the armed violence and conflict. The armed conflict held by Red Guards resulted in
    tens of thousands of casualties in the armed conflict. So far, the Cultural Revolution magnified
    the devastating blow that they brought to Chinese society to an unprecedented scale and brought
    numerous long-term effects to the Chinese society.

    1
    History.com Editors, "Cultural Revolution," HISTORY, last modified November 9, 2009, accessed May
    25, 2021, https://www.history.com/topics/china/cultural-revolution.
    2
    Glenn Kucha and Jennifer Llewellyn, "THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION BEGINS," Alpha History, last
    modified September 5, 2019, accessed May 25, 2021,
    https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/cultural-revolution-begins/.
    3
    History.com Editors, "Cultural Revolution," HISTORY.

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