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The negative impact of the Cultural Revolution on China’s economy, culture and education

Thesis statement: The cultural revolution had many negative impacts on several areas, such as economic, education and culture, thus leading China's development to stop for 10 years, in addition, the soul of that generation of citizens were caused indelible harm.

Introduction: As Heberer argued that the ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ is a political and social movement in the territory of the People's Republic of China between May 1966 and October 1976, which could be seen as a great Chinese trauma in twentieth century, and the party leadership declared this period to be a “ten-year catastrophe, which had led to national chaos” in 1991. (2009:165) This essay will outline and critically evaluate three key areas that were influenced strongly in the Cultural Revolution. ( Heberer, 2009:165) Comment by Guoguang Wu: I urge you to focus on only one aspect of one field of these broad three (economy, culture, and education). No a serious paper (and even a book) can cover such three huge fields.

BP1: Economic

1 As Harmel state, Poor quality of many economic infrastructures resulted in a slow development of economic because the government built a great number of factories which could immediately offer twenty million to have a work at the end of the Cultural Revolution. (Harmel,2016:40)

2 During the period of the Cultural Revolution, the whole ten years, the government did not increased wages, but after the 1977s, the government had greatly increased wages, which resulted in inflation. (Zhou,2016:289) Comment by Guoguang Wu: You may simply focus on this, and develop your entire paper around this topic.

BP2: Education

1 Cultural Revolution introduced a new educational system, which led to the closure of urban schools. The number of junior and senior schools doubled due to an increase in the number of students. By considering the schools that were closed for almost two years and the increase in the population, there was a major negative impact on the senior and junior attainment years.

2Due to the disruptions in learning, the substance of education was also affected. According to Li, (2001), universities started selecting students who belong3 to specific social classes such as workers, peasants, and soldiers. Such an aspect led to a downgrade in the academic standards within the Chinese society. Comment by Guoguang Wu: ?

BP3: Cultural

1 During the Cultural Revolution, Mao decided to replace the old culture with a new culture. According to Guoqiang & Walder, (2011), the change of the old culture was a strategy by Mao to attack the intellectual community in China. Mao led to the destruction of cultural values, religious customs, and traditions.

2 After the death of Mao, his efforts of destroying the old culture were merely successful. The introduction of new leadership orientation created a way in which the leadership focused more on politics. The new form of leadership under the communist party used the cultural remains in preserving its history and for political purposes (Mitler, 2008).

Conclusion:

In conclusion, The cultural revolution had many negative impacts on several areas, such as economic, education and culture, thus leading China's development to stop for 10 years, in addition, the soul of that generation of citizens were caused indelible harm. The cultural, educational, and economic reforms negatively affected the Chinese community on a greater scale that it is still felt in the modern China. Comment by Guoguang Wu: What is your research question with a question mark?

References

Guoqiang, D., & Walder, A. G. (2011). Local politics in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Nanjing under military control. The Journal of Asian Studies, 70(2), 425-447.

Harmel, Robert, and Yao-Yuan Yeh. “Attitudinal Differences within the Cultural Revolution Cohort: Effects of the Sent-down Experience.” The China Quarterly, vol. 225, 2016, pp. 234–252.

Li, X. (2001). The Chinese cultural revolution revisited. China Review, 137-165.

Mittler, B. (2008). Popular propaganda? Art and culture in revolutionary China. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152(4), 466-489.

Thomas Heberer (2009) The “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”: China's

modern trauma, Journal of Modern Chinese History, 3:2, 165-181

Zhou, Dong. “The Long-Term Impacts of the Cultural Revolution: A Micro-Analysis.” Labour, vol. 30, no. 3, Jan. 2016, pp. 285–317., Comment by Guoguang Wu: The outline is not viable for a paper. Also, you failed to follow the guidelines for outline writing. The length is much more beyond the page limit. 5/10