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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Mar 27, 2024

Professor Kenneth J. Hammond discusses the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, focusing on political tensions, ideological conflicts, mass rallies to revive revolutionary spirit, formations and divisions within Red Guards, and their impact on rural communities.

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Kenneth J. Hammond

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The Cultural Revolution in China aimed to challenge authority and promote rebel actions against bureaucratic power structures.

The Red Guard movement during the Cultural Revolution mobilized youth participation and historical consciousness, impacting urban and rural communities positively.

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Introduction

2min

Political Intrigue and Power Struggle in the Cultural Revolution

3min

Struggle for Revolutionary Spirit and Mass Action

3min

The Evolution of Red Guards in Post-Liberation China

9min

Exploring the Impact and Evolution of the Red Guard Movement

3min

Listen to the first installment of this four-episode series HERE

Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science, then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies - East Asia (1989), and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University. In 2007, Hammond was appointed director of the Confucius Institute, a cultural initiative funded in part by Hanban on the NMSU campus that is dedicated to studying and publicizing China and Chinese culture. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies.

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