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Cultural Revolution And Its Effects On Chinese Economic And Development

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Cultural Revolution, refers to a political movement that leads by Mao Zedong during May 1966 to October 1976. The original intention for Cultural Revolution is to prevent the restoration of capitalism. Mao want to clean the force who block the development. However, because of the failure leadership, this movement goes to a wrong way and become out of control. This ten years revolution seriously impact Chinese economic and development, it gives Communist Party and its people a big damage: school closed, factories shut down; students recruit for the “Red Guard”, they took to the streets to against democracy; millions of people involved into this revolution. It is a painful memories to Chinese. Today, some people prefer to call this revolution “Civil War”. Its influence until now. It is a war between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi. Their struggle for power makes Chinese culture remains stagnant and fell far behind the world, and even go backwards.
The fuse of this revolution is a historical article named “Hai Rui Dismissed from Office” which written by Wu Han. Hai Rui is an honest official of Ming Dynasty. He is outspoken and criticize the emperor thus he dismissed from office. Yao Wenyuan write an article and published on newspaper to criticize this play has serious reactionary tendencies can affect masses. Who also has same opinion with him named Jiang Qing. She is the wife of Mao Zedong and she is an ambitious woman who want to get the highest power. And on her speech in

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