Agenda 8/16/12  Journal  Share Power assignment  Get books and portfolios  PPT on Chinese Cultural Revolution  Start reading

Journal When given an assignment, how do you respond if you get stuck? How do you get inspired to get the job done? Fixed vs. Growth mindset

Chinese Cultural Revolution World Lit – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Key terms  Confucianism  Communism  Mao Zedong  Cultural revolution  Re-education

Cultural RevolutionCultural Revolution: Questions to Consider  How does a country get to the place described in the first part of Balzac?  How do leaders grab and keep power?

Background: Confucianism  BCE  Main ideas:  Love and Compassion  Respect for Elders – Filial Piety  Education  Ritual  Humility

Before World War II: Civil War in China Nationalists - Chiang Kai-Shek - Southwest - Capitalist (private ownership, competition) Communists - Mao Zedong - North - Communist (classless society, collective ownership)

World War II

 US sends $1.5 billion to China during World War II.  Where do they send it?  What do they do with it?

World War II

Civil War Again   Nationalists’ advantages:  Outnumber communists 3:1  US Financial Aid  October 1949, Mao wins  Economy  Confucianism

China Under Mao:  Mao needs to keep public support  80% of China’s population is rural  10% of rural population control 70% of land  Mao enacts a series of ineffective programs that don’t help the economy (or his popularity!)

Mao Steps Back  Mao collecting lists of artists, writers, and scholars who he has labeled “reactionary bourgeois”  Red Scare in reverse!

Cultural Revolution – May 1966  Society of Peasants and Workers: All Equal  Bourgeois are dangerous and anti- revolutionary  Intellectuals & artists are useless & dangerous  Red Guards: purge  Re-Education

Re-education  Program begins in 1968  Forced intellectuals/educated to purify themselves with hard labor in remote villages  “Thought reform through labor”  Balzac: youths have been deemed “intellectuals” and have been sent to the countryside to become re- educated by the village

Aftermath  Widespread chaos  Decrease in production  Civil war looming  Mao dies, Revolution ends 1976

Questions We Considered  How do leaders grab and keep power?  How does a country get to the place described in the first part of Balzac?

Clarification!  Balzac was not a member of the Communist party, nor was he a leader in China  He is also not the narrator  Honore de Balzac is a 19 th century French writer and playwright