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Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), writer, translator and art collector in Suzhou, a victim of the Cultural Revolution
Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
(lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
educated youth (esp. those sent to work in rural areas during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年)
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution)
to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution)
Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976)
model theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution)
Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control
struggle, criticize, and transform (Cultural Revolution catchcry)
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅, academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命)
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
social composition / social status (in Marxist theory, esp. using during the Cultural Revolution)
capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution)
Lin Biao (1908–1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution
(of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution)
rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution
stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校)
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
educated youth; young intellectual / (historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)
Misty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement
If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan) / fig. like father, like son
Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the Cultural Revolution
(Cultural Revolution term) conference of activist representatives (abbr. for 積極分子代表大會|积极分子代表大会)
class division into proletariat and bourgeoisie class enemy, in use esp. during the Cultural Revolution
Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution
fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)
Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution)
(in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc)
Han Aijing (1945-), notorious red guard leader during Cultural Revolution, spent 15 years in prison for imprisoning and torturing political leaders


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