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Goals: Destroying the Four Olds

Goals: Destroying the Four Olds. Cultural Revolution Swept A way 4 OLDS. Old customs Old culture Old habits Old ideas. The “four olds”. One of the ways to approach this is to rid every one of their valuable possessions. Mao’s red guards would raid

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Goals: Destroying the Four Olds

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  1. Goals: Destroying the Four Olds

  2. Cultural Revolution Swept Away 4 OLDS Old customs Old culture Old habits Old ideas

  3. The “four olds” • One of the ways to approach this is to rid every one of their valuable possessions. • Mao’s red guards would raid • houses looking • for “four olds”. *A four old is an item or behavior that shows old custom, old culture, old habit, or old ideas. *Remember that while Mao was draining the people in China of their wealth and power, Mao was a very wealthy man himself.

  4. Destroying The 4 Olds… Eroded family structure Families divided to work in countryside Attempted to wipe out Confucian thought Silenced intellectuals Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU

  5. The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Against the Four Olds • Red Guards: school students, mostly teenagers • Sacking, looting, beating and killing • Destroyed public and personal properties, and anything regarded as representing the Four Olds • landlords, reactionaries, counterrevolutionaries, rightists, bad elements, traitors, spies, capitalist-roaders, all of them “ox ghosts and snake spirits”

  6. Destroy the Four Olds Elena Songster & Jessica Stowell, OU

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