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Friday
• Do now: discuss with the person across from you which moment you chose to write about in your flash narrative.
• Please put your flash narratives in a pile in the middle of your desks.
Agenda
• Friday good news! (positive bragging, tattling)
• Background information for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Ticket out the door
Chinese Cultural Revolution
World Lit – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Key terms
Confucianism
Communism
Mao Zedong
Cultural revolution
Re-education
Cultural 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
551-479 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
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
1946-1949
Nationalists’ advantages:Outnumber communists 3:1
US Financial Aid
October 1949, Mao winsEconomy
Confucianism
China Under Mao: 1949-1961
Mao needs to keep public support80% of China’s population is rural
10% of rural population control 70% of land
Agrarian Reform Law
Five Year Plan – 1953
Communes
Great Leap Forward - 1958
Mao Steps Back
Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping step in: Practical Communism (vs. Mao’s ideal)
Mao collecting lists of artists, writers, and scholars who he has labeled “reactionary bourgeois”
Drama of the Ming Mandarin
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 - 1968
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
AftermathWidespread chaosDecrease in productionCivil war loomingMao 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, and in the video?
Clarification!
Balzac was not a member of the Communist party, nor was he a leader in China
Honore de Balzac is a 19th century French writer and playwright
Ticket out the door
What is working well for you in this class?
What would you like to see more of?
What are you looking forward to this weekend?