Cultural Revolution
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.
Origin of Cultural Revolution
1- Also called Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
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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.
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.
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society | Lily Kuo | September 9, 2021 | Washington PostAfter 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.
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.
An entrepreneur’s bottled water empire has made him richer than Warren Buffett | Grady McGregor | January 6, 2021 | FortuneThe youth numbers are so huge, so I think there will be a Cultural Revolution sooner than we think.
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But also, many of them have gone through the Cultural Revolution just like me.
Ping Fu’s Journey from Cultural Revolution Orphan to Geomagic CEO | Katie Baker | January 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAlthough within China it was acknowledged, the atrocity of the Cultural Revolution, it was not outside of China.
Ping Fu’s Journey from Cultural Revolution Orphan to Geomagic CEO | Katie Baker | January 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring the Cultural Revolution, he had to leave school to work in an oil factory.
60 Second Guide to Mo Yan: 2012 Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature | The Daily Beast | October 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring the enforced egalitarianism of the 1966–76 Cultural Revolution, very few ordinary citizens owned dogs.
China’s Dog-Dyeing Craze: Once Shunned, Pet Pooches Now Embraced | Melinda Liu | July 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Cultural Revolution was still in motion as of the early months of 1970.
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British Dictionary definitions for Cultural Revolution
(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 called: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
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