Cultural revolution

Bethell, S.L. "The poetry of Henry Vaughan, Silurist." In The cultural revolution of the seventeenth century, ed. S.L. Bethell, 121-161. London Dobson, 1951. 

Following the successful formation of the People s Republic of China, the government of China carried out the first, second and third five-year programs and achieved considerable success. Through the Great Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966, and the Ninth National Convention of the Chinese Communist Party, the nation s economy was steered onto a path toward stabilization. 

In 1976, the Gang of Four was crushed, when it was perceived that Chairman Mao s last years were being orchestrated by the oppressive and exploitive Gang, carrying on the repressions of the Cultural Revolution for their own purposes. 

During the self-induced turmoil and excesses of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath (1966-1976), the construction industry was crippled and construction of residential housing was brought to a standstill. During the same period, the population increased by 300 million, thus putting severe strains on the already stressed housing situation (where 9 square meters per person is considered spacious). 

The 1960s (or more accurately, the period from about 1963 to the early 1970s) was marked by profound social, political, and culmral upheaval. In addition to social and political reforms (such as the Civil Rights movement), racial unrest and the war in Vietnam, the decade was also marked by a cultural revolution. As the admittedly simplistic phrase would have it, the 1960s was the era of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. ... 

When you couple the psychedelics with today s technology, affluence, and the cultural revolution occurring now at the popular level, it is easy to understand why we are seeing Utopian experimentation throughout the country. The psychedelics are boosting the natural desire for such experi-... 

Kenong explains, During the Cultural Revolution, Mao Tse-tung closed schools, and we did not have a chance to study. When the schools opened again, agriculture was a very popular subject, so many of us enrolled at Anhui Agricultural University. That is where we met. ... 

Weiner, Douglas. R. 2000 [1998]. Models of Nature Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Lenin, "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government, March-April 1918, quoted in Carmen Claudin-Urondo, Lenin and the Cultural Revolution, trans. Brian Pearce (Sussex Harvester Press, 1977), p. 271. It is worth noting the brief naturalistic imagery associated with "public-meeting democracy here, as it is almost certainly borrowed from Rosa Luxemburg s work. 

Cultural Revolution. Similarly, Marx s emphasis on creation and production may in the final analysis be difficult to reconcile with his emphasis on community. 

The official Chinese news agency, located in the city of xinhua, estimates that there are ten million guitar players in their country today, an amazing number considering that the instrument had been banned during the cultural revolution that lasted 10 years, from nineteen sixty-six to nineteen seventy-six. 

Kong s periodic systems of diatomic and triatomic molecules (Kong 1982, 1989) are truly beautiM. They are the silver lining of the dark cloud of his long-term house arrest related to the Cultural Revolution in the People s Republic of China. His systems place molecules in the compartments of a flat chart with approximately the same shape as the chart of the elements. The period and group numbers are the sums of the atoms period and group numbers. 

Since the discovery of the transistor in the late 1940s, society has been following a path of ever increasing electronic device diversification and sophistication. A truly remarkable cultural revolution has resulted. Communications, computational ability, power and process manipulation, photonics, and diagnostics capabilities have progressed to levels only fictionalized about just a few short decades ago. This evolution has taken place in applications from infant toys to the space shuttle to pills that can be swallowed and radio transmit internal body temperature. The days of two-way wrist TV network linkage are soon to be at hand. 

Poirier uses Cultural Revolution " to describe France s revolt against the intellectual authority of knowledge similar, by implication, to that seen in China during the 1960s. The Academy s 1784 criticism of mesmerism, in which both Lavoisier and Franklin played lead roles, was now attacked as elitist. Two excerpts from Marat s 1791 pamphlet Les Charlatans Modernes illustrate the vulnerability of the academicians ... 

The next challenge in relation to the success of USI is the issue of sustainability. It is well-known that past success has been followed by failure due to a variety of factors in Guatemala and Colombia in South America, it was due to political changes and social upheaval in the former USSR countries due to complacency and apathy, together with political changes and in China due to the cultural revolution when public health programs were suspended. 

See Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, vols. 1-3 (New York, 1974,1983,1997) and Andrew Wedeman, The East Wind Subsides Chinese Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cultural Revolution (Washington, DC, 1987). 

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