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Chapter 4 - The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969–1982

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Roderick MacFarquhar
Edited by
Roderick MacFarquhar
Roderick MacFarquhar
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Roderick MacFarquhar
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Introduction

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was an attempt to shape the future of China. Its method was to change the nature of the Chinese people. It was to be a “great revolution that touches people to their very souls.” The masses were to liberate themselves by class struggle against the main target, “those within the Party who are in authority and are taking the capitalist road,” These so-called Soviet-style revisionists were alleged to be seeking to corrupt the masses by using old ideas to restore capitalism. By transforming the ideological realm – education, literature, the arts – and embracing Mao Zedong Thought, the Chinese people were to inoculate themselves against poisonous contagion.

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The Politics of China
Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China
 , pp. 246 - 336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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