For my project I looked at the history behind the Cultural Revolution in China around the year 1966. I have a power point on this topic that I showed in class but it doesn’t have much information on it. These are my notes on the topic and what I tried to present in class. Really the places I found all of these links were on Wikipedia and google. I don’t claim any of this.

What is the cultural revolution?

This video I found is a news source that is from China. I thought this video pretty much sums up everything you need to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGpmVs0_Dbc -New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television

Accounts of Struggle sessions:

Wiki: Enemies of the People”. Worldandischool.com. Retrieved 2011-03-07.

“You Xiaoli was standing, precariously balanced, on a stool. Her body was bent over from the waist into a right angle, and her arms, elbows stiff and straight, were behind her back, one hand grasping the other at the wrist. It was the position known as “doing the airplane.” Around her neck was a heavy chain, and attached to the chain was a blackboard, a real blackboard, one that had been removed from a classroom at the university where You Xiaoli, for more than ten years, had served as a full professor. On both sides of the blackboard were chalked her name and the myriad crimes she was alleged to have committed….

The scene was taking place at the university, too, in a sports field at one of China’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. In the audience were You Xiaoli’s students and colleagues and former friends. Workers from local factories and peasants from nearby communes had been bused in for the spectacle. From the audience came repeated, rhythmic chants…. “Down with You Xiaoli! Down with You Xiaoli!”

“I had many feelings at that struggle session,” recalls You Xiaoli. “I thought there were some bad people in the audience. But I also thought there were many ignorant people, people who did not understand what was happening, so I pitied that kind of person. They brought workers and peasants into the meetings, and they could not understand what was happening. But I was also angry.”