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In the recent resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the Communist Party of China (CCP) over the past century, the CCP reaffirmed its previous complete renunciation of the Cultural Revolution in 1981. Asserting that the movement was ‘an extremely bitter lesson’, the new resolution asserts that Mao Zedong’s mistakes and the many crimes of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing ‘brought disaster to the country and the people, resulting in ten years of domestic turmoil which caused the Party, the country, and the people to suffer the most serious losses and setbacks since the founding of the People’s Republic’. This class examines the origins, course, and legacy of the Cultural Revolution and attempts to assess the history of the period through the thematic study of primary and secondary sources.

Detailed Course Outline is available on Blackboard.

Attendance and participation (20%)

Essay and In-class Presentation (30%)

Paper (50%)

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