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During the ten years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), the People's Publishing House published 870 different editions of Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung (Volumes 1–4), with a total of 325 million paperbacks and 2.55 million hardcover copies of the Chinese editions created. The Selected Works were also translated into a 14 different ...
The Chinese Communist Revolution was a political revolution in China that culminated with the proclamation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The revolution was led by intellectuals who were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which afterwards became the ruling party of China's party-state. The revolution resulted in ...
The eight-legged essay (Chinese: 八股文; pinyin: bāgǔwén; lit. 'eight bone text') [1] was a style of essay in imperial examinations during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. [1] The eight-legged essay was needed for those candidates in these civil service tests to show their merits for government service, often focusing on Confucian ...
In this report, Mao stated that "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." [7]
In addition, mainlanders were not spared either, as many had real or perceived associations with communists before they came to Taiwan. For example, some mainlanders who had joined book clubs in mainland China, deemed leftist by the government, were liable to be arrested and many served long prison sentences for these real or perceived threats.
The 1911 Revolution overthrew the Qing government and four thousand years of monarchy. [3] Throughout Chinese history, old dynasties had always been replaced by new dynasties. The 1911 Revolution, however, was the first to overthrow a monarchy completely and attempt to establish a republic to spread democratic ideas throughout China.
Trotsky on China is a compilation of letters and articles by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, from 1925 until 1940. [1] These writings documented his views on the nature of the Chinese revolution, his warnings of Joseph Stalin's policies in relation to the Kuomintang alliance which precipitated the repression campaign against the Chinese Communists in 1927 and the Sino-Japanese war.
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 is a book by University of Hong Kong historian Frank Dikötter. It is the second book in a trilogy about the history of China under Mao Zedong , based primarily on newly opened government archives , as well as on interviews and memoirs.