136
The Cultural Revolution
music , 61 , 96 , 103 , 114
“The East Is Red,” 30–31
piano , 50
N
nationalism , 62
Nationalist Party . See Guomindang
neoliberalism , 97–100
New Life movement , 55
Ninth Congress , 16–17 , 120
Nixon, Richard , 93 , 95
nuclear weapons , 92
atomic bomb , 9
O
oil painting , 7 , 50 , 114
operas , 51 , 95
P
peasants , 6 , 16 , 25 , 37 , 70 . See also
rural workers
as artists , 59
status of , 74
Peng Dehuai , 8
Peng Zhen , 124
fall of , 14
personal networks , 41–42
piano music , 50
poetry , 60–61
political elites
conflicts for , 20–22
culture of , 48–49 , 54
theatricality related to , 28–29
political status , 25 , 74
politics
appearance of unity within , 9–10 ,
41
discipline and , 38–41 , 40
Mao cult and , 29–34 , 32
rebellion and , 34–38
refuge in personal networks for ,
41–42
theatricality of , 26–29 , 27
violence related to , 111
posters, big character , 26 , 35 , 48
poverty
economic growth and , 63–66 ,
65 t , 66 t
propaganda
big character posters , 26 , 35 , 48
Q
Qing Dynasty , 4–5
Qin Shihuangdi , 46
Quotations from the Works of Mao
Zedong . See Little Red Book
R
rebellion , 4 . See also Red Guards
democracy related to , 37–38
politics and , 34–38
Red August , 37
Red Guards , xvi
arts for , 61
big character posters for , 35
birth rates related to , 78 , 80
divisions within , 36–37
four olds destruction by , 44–49
idealism of , 116
Mao Zedong for , 26–27 , 27
newspapers from , 35
peasants and , 16
reminiscences of , 112
revolutionary tourism for , 35
as rural workers , 63 , 73–74 , 102 ,
120
street propaganda and , 48
students as , 15 , 108
violence from , 36–37 , 44 , 47
youth as , 15 , 34–36
Red Star over China (Snow) , 93
The Rent Collection Courtyard, 54
rights to , 113–14
revenge , 42
revolution . See also world revolution