Editor’s Note: This article is a revised version of “Chinese
Cultural Revolution: Facing History and Shaping Today“. What we
know as propaganda uses a constructed language on media to
implant ideas in the minds of individuals. It creates public
trends on how susceptible we are to authorities at the
individual level. Unfortunately, the human tendency to trust in
an authority is well known, and often exploited. This article
will approach propaganda seen during the Chinese Cultural
Revolution, in the words of theorist Sheryl Tuttle, as something
“epistemically defective or lacking epistemic merit where this
criterion not only applies propositions and arguments but also
to conceptual schemas (ways of carving up the world) as well as
moral precepts.”2 Widespread propaganda played a central role in
encouraging youth activism through a variety of techniques
during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Examples
include art, literature, government publications, newspapers,
and television. Propaganda of this era