The Cultural Revolution
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The failure of the Great Leap Forward weakened Mao's position of power in China. Mao felt that the rest of the Party was trying to push him aside and take over the party, so he launched a Cultural Revolution. The revolution insisted that education, art and literature was to all be written and produced about Communist ideology. Anything that was not written about Communism or was written in the West was destroyed.
Mao's wife Jiang Qing, dominated cultural production at the time, created Operas that conveyed women fighting for equal rights. On the left is the poster for the opera 'The Red Women's Army', productions were held frequently and the attendance of the people was mandatory.
In 1966 middle schools and universities were closed down and students were forced into participating in Red Guard activities and were encouraged to criticize those who had deviated from the Maoist thought.
Mao's wife Jiang Qing, dominated cultural production at the time, created Operas that conveyed women fighting for equal rights. On the left is the poster for the opera 'The Red Women's Army', productions were held frequently and the attendance of the people was mandatory.
In 1966 middle schools and universities were closed down and students were forced into participating in Red Guard activities and were encouraged to criticize those who had deviated from the Maoist thought.