Similarly, China’s Communist Revolution began with a decade of attacks on the middle and professional classes and a reshaping of the countryside, culminating in the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59. But that disastrous campaign weakened Mao’s influence; by the early 1960’s he seemed to be relegated to the sidelines while pragmatists like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping grew stronger.
同样的，中共革命一开始的十年也是攻击中产阶级和专业人士阶层，改造农村，并在1958年到59年的“大跃进”登峰造极。但是这场灾难性的运动削弱了毛的影响力；到60年代初期，他好像越来越边缘化，而像刘少奇和邓小平这样注重实效的人却越来越强。