Excellent film overview 7 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGpmVs0_Dbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O1x8jrt8Tc opinionated film
about the Communist Party’s unwillingness to apologize for errors
of the cultural revolution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/china_politics/key
_people_events/html/5.stm a simple written overview
a slightly more in depth overview from UK
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cultural_revolution.htm
and a 3rd one with good images as well
https://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/graph/9wenge.htm
http://chineseposters.net/themes/cultural-revolutioncampaigns.php posters of the cultural revolution with good
annotation
.
http://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests.php
the four olds customs, culture, habits, ideas
Criticize in same way: criticize the education system, the political
system,
Agriculture, industry , defense, technology, military
ASSESSMENT BY APPLICATION
USE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION TO
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS, AS IF THE CR was going on here now.
Eliminate alternate beliefs (religion) : what will you Start doing,
stop doing?
Criticize education: what will you Start doing, stop doing?
Criticize bureaucracy: what will you DO?
Habits, culture, customs, ideas. What will you get rid of? How?
HOW WILL YOU JUSTIFY ALL THESE ACTIONS?
What street names would you change, why? And to what?
How are you going to prevent the Red Guards from rising up against
you?
Burn books, churches, chage street names.