The Performance of Industry During the Cultural Revolution: Second Thoughts
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 108, 625-642
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000037103
Abstract
Mao Zedong, dissatisfied with the growing ossification of the Party and government bureaucracies, in the spring of 1966 launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. He believed that China's youth required a “revolutionary experience” to renew their faith in a revolution that had taken place before most of them had been born or were old enough to remember. The Cultural Revolution (1966–76) quickly became a period of widespread, often violent, social upheaval that affected the performance of industry.Keywords
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