Discussion GuiDe for “china unDer Mao” During and after the viewing of this video, students will: China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed Timeline of 1966–1976 Quotations by Mao Zedong Book Summary of from Harvard University Press Video Transcript “CHINA UNDER MAO” DISCUSSION GUIDE 1 introduction Timeline of 1966–1976Quotations by Mao Zedong China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed Book Summary of from Harvard University Press communism cult of personality Great Leap Forward Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution or Cultural Revolution—a guerrilla leadership revolution socialism 2 © SPICE introduction China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed and in the video, Professor Timeline of 1966–1976, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong Quotations by Mao Zedong “CHINA UNDER MAO” DISCUSSION GUIDE 3 introduction China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed Timeline of 1966–1976 China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, and write 4 © SPICE introduction “CHINA UNDER MAO” DISCUSSION GUIDE 5 handout 1 TiMeline of 1966–1976 1965 Jiang Qing (1914–1991)— Setting the stage for the Cultural Revolution Jiang Qing vitriolic bourgeois socialist May 16, 1966 Unofficial beginning of the Cultural Revolution Politburo sphere of culture out an aggressive hunt for revisionists revisionist struggle session struggle sessions, and Marxist May 25, 1966 First dazibao dazibao, “black, anti-Party gangster” continued on next page 6 © SPICE handout 1 reactionary—one “bad elements”— May 29, 1966 Red Guards form at Beijing University fervor fervor disgruntled—in a state of are disgruntled anger, and irritation unprecedented—having ideology August 5, 1966 Mao writes a dazibao purge “CHINA UNDER MAO” DISCUSSION GUIDE 7 handout 1 August 8, 1966 Sixteen Points Directive capitalist-roader— People’s Daily—the People’s Daily smash the “Four Olds”— August 18, 1966 First Red Guard rally in Beijing quintessential—the to “Little Red Book”— Selected Works Quotations by Chairman Mao revisionism People’s Liberation Army (PLA) January 1967 Chaos escalates “Four Olds”—old ideas, “Seven Kinds of Black”—refers to 8 © SPICE handout 1 vendetta debilitate vendettas Lin Biao (1907–1971)— People’s Daily Spring 1968 Campaign to promote Mao’s cult of personality donning don ubiquitous extol Mao Zedong Thought— , and propaganda— undermine July 1968 Red Guards dismantled “CHINA UNDER MAO” DISCUSSION GUIDE 9 handout 1 quell To People’s Daily December 1968 “Down to the Countryside” Movement April 1969 Ninth Congress of the CCP convene counterrevolutionary— tionaries.