PRC as Revolutionary State

• Images of the Chinese Cultural RevolutionBy Paul Pickowicz From: http://www.alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol4no2/features/posters.htm

Campaigns

• 1950-52 Collectivization• 1951– Destroying Enemies of the PRC• 1957 – 100 Flowers Movement• 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign

Great Leap Forward: 1958-63

Back Yard Blast Furnaces

GLF Results

1990 Age CohortFrom: International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/ChinaFood/data/pop/p_23c_m.htm

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-76

1. Liu Shaoqi 2. The Four Olds– Old thought– Old culture– Old customs– Old habits

Destroying the Four Olds

3. A New Revolution: Red Guards

Factionalism

#2 Lin Biao Zhou Enlai Jiang Qing

The End of the Era: 1976

Zhou 1/6/76 Mao 9/9/76

Factional Battles for Succession

Hua Guofeng Deng XiaopingMao’s Choice Pragmatic Faction

Hardliners: Gang of Four 1980

New Leader: Deng Xiaoping

In the US February 1979