The CulturalRevolution, previously known as the Great Proletarian CulturalRevolution, was a multifaceted affair undergirded by a vicious, fanatical campaign to destroy the “Four Olds.”
Wong Tung Hon is a 75-year-old survivor who escaped China during the culturalrevolution. He was one of the students who got sent down to the countryside.
Jekielek: Why don’t we start with you explaining what the CulturalRevolution was?
Ms. Van Fleet: Mao implemented a lot of disastrous policies before the CulturalRevolution.
Chinese Americans who experienced the CulturalRevolution in China want to educate their American counterparts on what they see as the American version of the CultureRevolution in the 21st century.
Turkel is no stranger to the CulturalRevolution—he was born in a Chinese re-education camp where his mother was imprisoned at the height of the violent mass movement that started in 1966.
CRT Versus Chinese CulturalRevolution
Van Fleet realized that today's woke revolution, driven by CRT, has "a twin brother"—the Chinese CulturalRevolution, which derived from Mao's Class Conflict Theory (CCT).
After the CulturalRevolution, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formed public-private partnerships to wipe out political opponents and wealthy capitalists.
Wong is the author of a new book release, “Swimming to Freedom: My Untold Story of Escaping the CulturalRevolution.”
He was a Chinese refugee who swam to Hong Kong from the Chinese border in the south during the CulturalRevolution.
Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China
During the CulturalRevolution, anything even slightly related to religion was suppressed as one of the “Four Olds”—old customs, old culture, old habits, and old
Liberals and conservatives will need to be allies in an effort to fight a growing Marxist culturalrevolution taking place across America, according to Israeli philosopher and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, Yoram Hazony.
November 8, 2021By Jan Jekielek, Katabella Roberts
Self Loathing
But this is always the totalitarian way, from the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Revolution to Mao’s CulturalRevolution. The world must be born anew.
"The anti-religious extremism over CulturalRevolution was followed by a gradual increasing tolerance in the early 1990s and 2000s—the Party's bloody campaign against the Falun Gong representing a notable and tragic exception."
(Shiping/The Epoch Times)
Several Chinese democracy groups in Queens also held a June 1 seminar in Flushing to mark the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the 60th anniversary of the CulturalRevolution, and current international affairs.
The tragedy of the CulturalRevolution therefore extended beyond the physical suffering it inflicted. It was also an attempt to break the continuity of Chinese civilization and replace historical memory with revolutionary mythology.
To marshal the best talent in the country, the authorities, shortly after the horrors of the CulturalRevolution, reinstituted the National College Entrance Examination, the so-called Gaokao.
Their stated mission is to revive a culture that was "almost lost" during China's devastating CulturalRevolution in the 1960s. Many traditions, including spirituality, were destroyed.
Ms.
Once abroad, their aim shifted to the arts to tell the world the truth about communism and revive a culture that was "almost lost" during the repressive CulturalRevolution.
Tens of millions more lives perished in the Great Famine and the CulturalRevolution over the next two decades. Guns and tanks at Tiananmen Square likely wiped out thousands in 1989.
But in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, education authorities caused an uproar when it evoked a CulturalRevolution-era concept in its announcement for gaokao registration.
Through such dance pieces, the artists aim to revive a culture that was "almost lost" during China's catastrophic decade-long CulturalRevolution, which began in 1966.
The CulturalRevolution destroyed institutions, shattered social order, and unleashed violence across an entire generation.
Violence was not an aberration. It was a method.
The CCP is not simply an authoritarian system.
We see what pre-CulturalRevolution [pre-communist China] seemed like. ... It was really good.
"Music was beautiful. ... It has almost an ethereal feel to it. It's very nice."
"Beautiful performance."