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Team 1: Iman & Maria “The Reshaping of the Chinese Culture”, How -…
Team 1: Iman & Maria
“The Reshaping of the Chinese Culture”
What actually changed?
More modern Soviet-inspired art with propagandist messages
e.g. Happy peasants celebrating the abundant harvest in a village co-operative
Younger poets were encouraged to write about new agricultural & industrial achievents in a modern way
Plays & films overly propagandist
All literature works carefully censored
News media was centralised
PRC’s news agency Xinhua
The state controlled which newspapers & journals could be published & what could appear in print
Sale or possession of foreign literature became punishable
Foreign libraries & museums were closed
Western music, (classical & popular) was banned
Traditional Chinese opera, with its satirical style, was replaced by a repertoire of specially commissioned contemporary opera-ballets, which depicte the triumph of the proletariat over its class enemies
Artists of all sorts were terrorised into silence & made to submit to ‘struggle sessions
What was the CCP’s official goal?
Transform society
Rich traditional culture was associated with feudal & imperial society
Needs to be replaced by a communist culture, which exulted the common man.
Eliminating the "4 Olds"
Old ideas
Old culture
Old customs
Old habits
Replace these Confucian things with Mao Zedong Thought
Religions
Traditions
Build a new "Socialist Man" who ishardworking and devoted to Mao
“If the proletariat does not occupy the positions in literature and art, the bourgeoisie certainly will”
– Lin Biao, Mao’s ally
what changed
Confucian moral codes were suppressed
Purge of old school apparatuses
Only allowed to teach Mao Thought
The youth mobilised into little red guards
Transformation of art and literature
Only political pro-communist allowed
Women's rights improved, striving for equality
Simplification of Chinese characters
Improved literacy rates
Educational campaigns
What didn’t change? Where CCP failed?
Traditional Chinese art was allowed to continue
Old style poetry continued
Nothing of value had arisen to take the place of old culture
How
Purges
Public humiliation
Prosecution
Propaganda
Censorship
Mass mobilisation
Intellectuals forced to learn from peasants
