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Cultural Revolution

noun

  1. a radical sociopolitical movement in China c1966–71, led by Mao Zedong and characterized by military rule, terrorism, purges, restructuring of the educational system, etc. Compare Gang of Four, Red Guard.


Cultural Revolution

noun

  1. (in China) a mass movement (1965–68), in which the youthful Red Guard played a prominent part. It was initiated by Mao Tse-tung to destroy the power of the bureaucrats and to revolutionize the attitudes and behaviour of the people Also calledGreat Proletarian Cultural Revolution
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cultural Revolution1

Translation of Chinese wénhuà gémìng
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Example Sentences

The author dives deep into the hardships that his father, Ai Qing, endured during China’s Cultural Revolution—and how that familial history shaped his own childhood and artistry.

From Time

The essay, picked up by China’s state media outlets, prompted comparisons with a 1965 article that launched China’s chaotic decade-long Cultural Revolution, and left even some in the party establishment worried.

After China’s Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s father, the celebrated poet Ai Qing, was sentenced to hard labor in a remote area called “Little Siberia,” with his family—including young Weiwei—in tow.

From Time

When China’s Cultural Revolution ended, Zhong got a degree in journalism from a local university and worked as a reporter in the early 1980s.

From Fortune

The youth numbers are so huge, so I think there will be a cultural revolution sooner than we think.

But also, many of them have gone through the Cultural Revolution just like me.

Although within China it was acknowledged, the atrocity of the Cultural Revolution, it was not outside of China.

During the Cultural Revolution, he had to leave school to work in an oil factory.

During the enforced egalitarianism of the 1966–76 Cultural Revolution, very few ordinary citizens owned dogs.

The Cultural Revolution was still in motion as of the early months of 1970.

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