Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Simplified Chinese: 无产阶级文化大革命, Traditional Chinese: 無產階級文化大革命, Pinyin: Wúchǎn Jiējí Wénhuà Dà Gémìng, literally: Proletarian Cultural Great Revolution); shortened in Chinese as 文化大革命 or 文革, also known simply as the Cultural Revolution, was a time of large cultural change in China.

Mao Zedong (Chairman of the Communist Party of China) started the Cultural Revolution in 1966, after the Great Leap Forward failed.^[1] It began to slow down in 1967, and ended in 1969.^[1] At a meeting called the Ninth National Party Congress, the end of the Cultural Revolution was announced.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} People's Republic of China: III. Retrieved on 2009-09-12.