Agenda 8/16/12 Journal Share Power assignment Get books and portfolios PPT on Chinese Cultural Revolution Start reading

Journal When given an assignment, how

do you respond if you get stuck? How do you get inspired to get the job done?

Fixed vs. Growth mindset

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 IIUS 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 wins Economy Confucianism

China Under Mao: 1949-1961 Mao needs to keep public support

80% of China’s population is rural 10% of rural population control 70% of

land Mao enacts a series of ineffective

programs that don’t help the economy (or his popularity!)

Mao Steps Back Mao collecting lists of artists, writers,

and scholars who he has labeled “reactionary bourgeois”

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: purgeRe-Education - 1968

Re-educationProgram begins in 1968Forced 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

Aftermath

Widespread 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?

Clarification! Balzac was not a member of the

Communist party, nor was he a leader in China

He is also not the narrator Honore de Balzac is a 19th century

French writer and playwright