Chinese Cultural Revolution Research Paper

The Chinese Cultural Revolution Grew up and educated in China, the Chinese Cultural Revolution was only briefly mentioned in my history class. The way the textbook described the Cultural Revolution, made it seems so insignificant and “normal”. Living abroad, with access to more information, I want to uncover it from the “history textbook”. First, I want to know how exactly the Cultural Revolution happened and evolved. The Cultural Revolution started in 1966 by Chairman Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party. As Mao feared that China would follow the same path as the Russian Revolution, which had gone astray, he launched the Cultural Revolution with four goals: to replace his successor with more faithful to his ideals ones; to correct the Chinese Communist Party; to provide urban youths with a revolution-experience; to make the systems less elitist. The Cultural Revolution lasted for ten years, and claimed millions people …show more content…
Somehow, the party made the Cultural Revolution as an “error”, and held Map responsible for it. 40 years after the Cultural Revolution ended, the total number of victims or “abnormal death” is still unknown, both domestically and internationally. The Chinese Communist Party continues to honor Mao and refuses to allow in-depth study of this “holocaust”. Scholars were forbidden or discouraged to studying the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The “abnormal death”, was estimated range from one-half to eight million according to the article. The information of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is hard to obtain, as the criticism to the Cultural Revolution is more about the Chinese Communist Party rather than Mao himself. The Party cited it as an “error”, and didn’t see it as an unfortunate but also important and necessary chapter in the Chinese history. Furthermore, no apologies or condolences were given to the victims who were killed or are still suffering after the