NOUN
- a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
How To Use Cultural Revolution In A Sentence
- The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
- Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting “an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang”—without specifying which group was which. Wild Swans
- In their eyes, nothing less than a cultural revolution was needed to purge the Chinese people of some of their most ingrained habits and cherished values.
- In the period when Mao Tsetung reflected on the Cultural Revolution, he demanded the whole party to study Marxism, especially Marxist philosophy and he had factually identified the ideological reason.
- As a result, the Cultural Revolution proved to be something of a non-event, in comparison with the chiliastic aspirations with which it had begun.
- Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
- So it went through the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, when female film stars wrapped their chests in sackcloth lest they appear buxom, which was tantamount to being bourgeois.
- For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring.
- In their 1996-97 photomontages, the Luo Brothers, Beijing-based artists who have been collaborating since 1986, appropriate Cultural Revolution icons in order to skewer them.
- The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
