what was this revolution about?
It was a sociopolitical movement.
Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 197
who was yu-chien kuan? was a Chinese-born German sinologist, writer and translator. where was he born? In Guangzhou, Guangdong, Republic of China. why did he escape? He was targeted for persecution in the Cultural Revolution and his marriage had failed.
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Cultural Revolution [SEP] Introduction
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC, commonly referred as the Chinese Communist Party, CCP), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as "Maoism") as the dominant ideology in the CCP. The Revolution marked Mao's return to the central position of power in China after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failures of the Great Leap Forward, which led to approximately 30 million deaths in the Great Chinese Famine only five years prior.