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Cultural Revolution
1966–1976 Maoist sociopolitical movement in China
Maoism
thumb|Chinese propaganda portraying Mao Zedong, 1968
Great Leap Forward
1958–1962 Chinese socioeconomic campaign
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
book of selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong
Gang of Four
Chinese political faction
Red Guards
paramilitary social movement of young people in the People's Republic of China
Hundred Flowers Campaign
period in Chinese history
paper tiger
ineffectual threat
people's democracy (theoretical concept within Marxism–Leninism)
multi-party, popular front-influenced rule by the people for the transition to socialism
comprador
A comprador or compradore () is a "person who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation." An example of a comprador would be a native manager for a European business house in East and South East Asia, and, by extension, social groups that play broadly similar roles in other parts of the world.
self-criticism
Self-criticism involves how an individual evaluates oneself. Self-criticism in psychology is typically studied and discussed as a negative personality trait in which a person has a disrupted self-identity. The opposite of self-criticism would be someone who has a coherent, comprehensive, and generally positive self-identity. Self-criticism is often associated with major depressive disorder. Some theorists, such as Sidney Blatt, Samantha Reis and Brin Grenyer, define self-criticism as a mark of a certain type of depression (introjective depression), and in general people with depression tend to
Anti-Rightist Campaign
Chinese political campaign under Mao Zedong
people's war
Maoist military strategy
Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns
Chinese reform movement led by Mao Zedong
big-character poster
protest and propaganda method
Four Olds
elements of Chinese culture (Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Customs) purged during Mao’s Cultural Revolution
denunciation rally
form of public humiliation and torture used by the Chinese Communist Party in the Mao era
Down to the Countryside Movement
exile of Chinese urban youth to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution
social imperialism
governments that engage in imperialism meant to preserve the domestic social peace
Socialist Education Movement
Chinese reform movement led by Mao Zedong
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries
Chinese political campaign
Capitalist roader
Maoist term for people or groups within socialist revolutionary circles who would attempt to return to capitalism
political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
phrase coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
Sufan movement
Chinese political campaign under Mao Zedong
One Divides Into Two
controversy over Yang Xianzhen’s interpretation of Marxist dialectics
self-criticism
in Marxism-Leninism, the method of criticising ones shortcomings as opposed to concealing them
Han nationalism
Chinese nationalism applied exclusively to the Han Chinese ethnicities
Feudal fascism
term used to describe Maoist China
revolutionary base area
type of geographic area controlled by the military according to an Maoist military strategy
Worker-Peasant-Soldier student
Chinese university student in the 1970's admitted for their class background rather than academic qualifications
rusticated youth of China
youth forced to work in the countryside during China's cultural revolution; urban Chinese youth who were relocated to the countryside for reeducation during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and who developed a shared group identity