China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction xvii
• Part I - Intentions and Means 1
• A. Pronouncements by Members of the Ccp Leadership 3
• 1 - Just a Few Words 5
• 2 - Why a Cultural Revolution? 9
• 3 - Mao Zedong Thought Is the Sole Criterion of Truth 27
• B - Official Policy 29
• 4 - Decision concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 33
• 5 - In Praise of the Red Guards 43
• 6 - Regulations Forbidding the Use of Military Force to Suppress the Revolutionary Student Movement 48
• 7 - Regulations on Strengthening Public Security Work in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 49
• 8 - Decision to Provide the Revolutionary Masses of the Left with the Firm Support of the People's Liberation Army 52
• 9 - Public Notice Banning Nationwide Organizations 54
• 10 - Public Notice concerning Workers' Organizations 55
• 11 - No Ethnic Mass Organizations 56
• 12 - Letter to Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants and Cadres at All Levels in Rural People's Communes All over the Country 58
• 13 - On the Revolutionary "Three-In-One" Combination 59
• 14 - Learn from the Liberation Army in Political Work 65
• 15 - Notification concerning the Resumption of Classes to Make Revolution in Universities, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools 75
• 16 - Notification concerning Work Assignments for University Graduates in 1968 77
• 17 - Opinions and Questions concerning the Reconsolidation, Revitalization, and Rebuilding of the Party Organization 81
• 18 - Instructions on Cracking Down on Counter-Revolutionary Destructive Activities 85
• Part II - Effects and Consequences 91
• C - Purging the Party 93
• 19 - Annihilate Every Renegade 95
• 20 - Interrogation Record: Wang Guangmei 101
• 21 - On Case Examination Work 116
• 22 - Bo Yibo Has an Attitude Problem 122
• D - Making Rebellion 137
• 23 - Rebels in Shanghai 141
• 24 - As I Watched Zhou Tianxing and Lu Wen Sweep the Floor 146
• 25 - On Hunger Strike to Protest Illegal Political Persecution 147
• 26 - I Saw Chairman Mao!!! 148
• 27 - Dearest Chairman Mao: What Are You Doing? 149
• 28 - Proletarian Dictatorship and Proletarian Extensive Democracy 150
• 29 - An Open Letter to Comrade Lin Biao 155
• 30 - It's OK to Touch Your Soul 162
• 31 - As We Watched Them Beat Him . . . 166
• 32 - Chinese Molestation of Diplomats 169
• 33 - Dear Parents, . . . Don't Worry about Me! 173
• 34 - After-School Activities of Middle School and Elementary School Students 176
• 35 - I Support My Child in Taking the Revolutionary Road 181
• 36 - In Another Twenty Years, the World Will Belong to Us! 183
• E - Revolutionary Culture 185
• 37 - The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution I 187
• 38 - Revolutionary Aphorisms 188
• 39 - Why Do Some People Call Me Foolish? 192
• 40 - Reforming the Fine Arts 197
• 43 - Vigorously and Speedily Eradicate Bizarre Bourgeois Hair Styles 210
• 44 - One Hundred Items for Destroying the Old and Establishing the New 212
• 45 - Revolutionize the Spring Festival 222
• 46 - Let Us Celebrate a 'Proletarian Cultural Revolution Holiday 227
• 47 - On "The Red Lantern" 228
• 48 - Unveiling the Dark Side of the Chinese Department's Program in Classical Studies 233
• F - The Economy 243
• 49 - On How to Handle Foreign Currency, Foreign Currency Receipts, and Foreign Currency Securities Confiscated by Red Guards 245
• 50 - Public Notice on Cracking Down on Speculation and Strengthening Market Controls 247
• 51 - Warehouse Inventory Work in Shanghai--A Survey 250
• 52 - Situation Report (1968) on Thrift within the Armed Forces 255
• 53 - Concerning the Speed of Economic Development during the Ten Years of Domestic Turmoil 262
• G - Mutual Perceptions: Chinese and Western 267
• 54 - Salesmen of Reactionary Western Culture 269
• 55 - A Great Storm 272
• 56 - Is China Almost like a Dead Society? 276
• Part III - After the Event 289
• H - The Trouble with History: Official Verdicts 291
• 57 - Seal the Coffin and Pass the Final Verdict 293
• 58 - Concerning Open Propaganda about the Redressing of the Unjust Case of Comrade Liu Shaoqi 294
• 59 - The Cultural Revolution--Excerpt from "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China" 296
• 60 - On the Appropriate Handling of Materials Related to Unjust, False, and Mistaken Cases Dating from the Great Cultural Revolution Movement 304
• 61 - Civilian's Martyr Status Revoked . . . 306
• 62 - . . . and Soldiers' Martyr Status Reaffirmed 307
• 63 - Regulations Governing the Publication of Books about the "Great Cultural Revolution" 310
• I - Ordinary People Remember 313
• 64 - The "Cultural Revolution" Has Been under Way for Two Thousand Years 315
• 65 - Childhood without Toys 326
• 66 - Burning Books 327
• 67 - Comrade Wu Han, I Apologize! 329
• 68 - Go on Red! Stop on Green! 331
• 69 - All Because of on Practice 333
• 71 - Walls 339
• 72 - Letter to Chen Yun, Deng Xiaoping, and Hu Yaobang 354
• Organizational Charts 357
• Chronology 361
• Biographical Sketches 373
• Further Readings 387
• Index 391
• About the Author 401

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