c. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966
Inquiry Topic: Mao consolidation and maintenance of power (1949–1976) Specified Content: The Cultural Revolution Mao’s ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ was launched in May 1966. His declared that his aim was to initiate a revolution at the very heart of traditional Chinese ‘culture’. He wanted to eliminate the creeping return of liberal and bourgeois thinking and behaviour. Mao believed that this would...