Cultural Policies Flashcards
1
Q
When does Mao launch the ‘Four Olds Campaign’ / Cultural Revolution ?
A
1966
2
Q
What was the purpose of the Cultural Revolution?
A
Destroy ideas, culture, customs and habits
3
Q
How was infrastructure and objects impacted by the Cultural Revolution?
A
- Temples and religious objects destroys
- Philosophical books burnt unless they praised Mao and the CCP
- Shrines replaced with Mao’s picture
4
Q
What and how were traditional festivals destroyed?
A
- Lantern Festival, New Year, Seasonal Celebrations
- Due to 1950s land reform and destruction of village life
5
Q
How did Plays and Operas change?
A
- Preached Communist Ideology (e.g ‘The East is Red’ ballet movie)
- Directors and Writers were blacklisted or fired
- ‘Make it revolutionary or ban it’ slogan
6
Q
Why was the change in art and culture ineffective amongst the Chinese People in the short term?
A
- Lack of diversity made movies boring
- New culture had not reached all people
- Not all peasants heard about the Cultural Revolution
7
Q
Why was the change in art and culture ineffective amongst the Chinese People in the long term?
A
Confucianism, Religion, and Ancestral Worship was so heavily engrained, Mao could not erase thousands of years of culture
8
Q
who was Jiang Qing?
A
- Appointed to destroy traditional chinese culture and replace it with revolutionary communism
- Math’s 4th Wife and ‘cultural tsar’
9
Q
how did Mao’s cultural changes lead to the end of religion?
A
- Tibet and Xinjiang
- Confucianism and Ancestor Worship
- Agit-Prop performers
- Communes
10
Q
what were agit-prop performers?
A
- Helped people embrace Maoism
- Bright trucks with slogans and images
- Truck sides projected films
- Trucks could be converted into stages
