Tensions between CCP and Mao/Aims and methods of Mao/ Role of GoF and Red Guards
TENSIONS BETWEEN CCP AND MAO
Mao’s setbacks
Great Leap Forward is major failure
Relinquishes PRC President to Liu Shaoqi
Threat of Liu
Liu Shaoqi held a similar amount of power as Mao by 1965
Liu gains all of Mao’s conservative opponents
Mao moves to Shanghai to gather supporters with Jiang Qing which made way for the cultural revolution
Play “Hai Rui Dismissed from Office” mocked Mao’s treatment of his defence minister
AIMS AND METHODS OF MAO ZEDONG
Regaining power after the GLF
Mao encouraged students to make propaganda posters that denounced Deng and Liu Shaoqi while praising Mao
Mao publicly denounced Liu and Deng for capitalist tendencies
Mao swims across the Yangtze river at 72yrs old which is heavily propagandised and showed his power even in old age
Re-imposing Maoism
Mao encouraged the people to study of his writings
The Little Red Book, which highlighted Mao’s ideological beliefs about socialism and the purging of the ‘Four Olds’
Useful way of indoctrination and establishing cult of personality
Purging capitalist and traditional sentiments
Encouraged students to name opponents of the regime
Red Guard attacked and killed millions without evidence
Public posters continued to repent the ‘four olds’ and were very effective
ROLE OF THE GANG OF FOUR AND THE RED GUARDS; THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FOUR OLDS
Gang of Four
Comprised of Jiang Qinq, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen.
Purpose was to organise and carry out the Cultural Revolution
Yao criticised “Hai Rui…”, Jiang staged revolutionary operas, Zhang and Wang spoke in Shanghai and encouraged students
Influenced education, school structures and party polices on intellectuals
Controlled media and used propaganda outlets
Targeted Deng and Liu; able to get Deng exiled for conspiring against Mao
Red Guards
Student Led paramilitary groups mobilised by Mao to diminish the Four Olds and purge capitalism
Used violence, accused intellectuals and teachers of capitalism and bashed/killed those who criticcised Mao
E.g. At a girl’s school in Beijing, the Red Guards decided to rid to school of bourgeois elements. They accused the members of forming a ‘Black Gang’ (gangs who opposed Maoist Thought), and as such, they splashed the girls with black ink and then bashed them with nail-studded clubs. Vice principle Bian was murdered.
Four Olds
Old Customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas
Red Guards attacked anything traditional, even hairstyles or shoes
Imposed their view on the population through violence and terror
TENSIONS BETWEEN CCP AND MAO
Mao’s setbacks
Great Leap Forward is major failure
Relinquishes PRC President to Liu Shaoqi
Threat of Liu
Liu Shaoqi held a similar amount of power as Mao by 1965
Liu gains all of Mao’s conservative opponents
Mao moves to Shanghai to gather supporters with Jiang Qing which made way for the cultural revolution
Play “Hai Rui Dismissed from Office” mocked Mao’s treatment of his defence minister
AIMS AND METHODS OF MAO ZEDONG
Regaining power after the GLF
Mao encouraged students to make propaganda posters that denounced Deng and Liu Shaoqi while praising Mao
Mao publicly denounced Liu and Deng for capitalist tendencies
Mao swims across the Yangtze river at 72yrs old which is heavily propagandised and showed his power even in old age
Re-imposing Maoism
Mao encouraged the people to study of his writings
The Little Red Book, which highlighted Mao’s ideological beliefs about socialism and the purging of the ‘Four Olds’
Useful way of indoctrination and establishing cult of personality
Purging capitalist and traditional sentiments
Encouraged students to name opponents of the regime
Red Guard attacked and killed millions without evidence
Public posters continued to repent the ‘four olds’ and were very effective
ROLE OF THE GANG OF FOUR AND THE RED GUARDS; THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FOUR OLDS
Gang of Four
Comprised of Jiang Qinq, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen.
Purpose was to organise and carry out the Cultural Revolution
Yao criticised “Hai Rui…”, Jiang staged revolutionary operas, Zhang and Wang spoke in Shanghai and encouraged students
Influenced education, school structures and party polices on intellectuals
Controlled media and used propaganda outlets
Targeted Deng and Liu; able to get Deng exiled for conspiring against Mao
Red Guards
Student Led paramilitary groups mobilised by Mao to diminish the Four Olds and purge capitalism
Used violence, accused intellectuals and teachers of capitalism and bashed/killed those who criticcised Mao
E.g. At a girl’s school in Beijing, the Red Guards decided to rid to school of bourgeois elements. They accused the members of forming a ‘Black Gang’ (gangs who opposed Maoist Thought), and as such, they splashed the girls with black ink and then bashed them with nail-studded clubs. Vice principle Bian was murdered.
Four Olds
Old Customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas
Red Guards attacked anything traditional, even hairstyles or shoes
Imposed their view on the population through violence and terror