Friday

• Do now: discuss with the person across from you which moment you chose to write about in your flash narrative.

• Please put your flash narratives in a pile in the middle of your desks.

Agenda

• Friday good news! (positive bragging, tattling)

• Background information for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

• Ticket out the door

Chinese Cultural Revolution

World Lit – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Key terms

Confucianism

Communism

Mao Zedong

Cultural revolution

Re-education

Cultural Revolution:Questions to Consider

How does a country get to the place described in the first part of Balzac?

How do leaders grab and keep power?

Background: Confucianism

551-479 BCE

Main ideas:Love and Compassion

Respect for Elders – Filial Piety

Education

Ritual

Humility

Before World War II: Civil War in China

Nationalists

- Chiang Kai-Shek

- Southwest

- Capitalist (private ownership, competition)

Communists

- Mao Zedong

- North

- Communist (classless society, collective ownership)

World War II

World War II

US sends $1.5 billion to China during World War II.

Where do they send it?What do they do with it?

World War II

Civil War Again

1946-1949

Nationalists’ advantages:Outnumber communists 3:1

US Financial Aid

October 1949, Mao winsEconomy

Confucianism

China Under Mao: 1949-1961

Mao needs to keep public support80% of China’s population is rural

10% of rural population control 70% of land

Agrarian Reform Law

Five Year Plan – 1953

Communes

Great Leap Forward - 1958

Mao Steps Back

Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping step in: Practical Communism (vs. Mao’s ideal)

Mao collecting lists of artists, writers, and scholars who he has labeled “reactionary bourgeois”

Drama of the Ming Mandarin

Red Scare in reverse!

Cultural Revolution – May 1966

Society of Peasants and Workers: All Equal

Bourgeois are dangerous and anti-revolutionary

Intellectuals & artists are useless & dangerous

Red Guards: purge

Re-Education - 1968

Re-education

Program begins in 1968

Forced intellectuals/educated to purify themselves with hard labor in remote villages

“Thought reform through labor”

Balzac: youths have been deemed “intellectuals” and have been sent to the countryside to become re-educated by the village

AftermathWidespread chaosDecrease in productionCivil war loomingMao dies, Revolution ends 1976

Questions We Considered

How do leaders grab and keep power?

How does a country get to the place described in the first part of Balzac, and in the video?

Clarification!

Balzac was not a member of the Communist party, nor was he a leader in China

Honore de Balzac is a 19th century French writer and playwright

Ticket out the door

What is working well for you in this class?

What would you like to see more of?

What are you looking forward to this weekend?