The Cultural Revolution

1. The Cultural Revolution Politics, Posters, and Media Culture in China

2. “Chairman Mao is the Red Sun in Our Hearts”

3. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution • 1966-1976 • “standard” narratives: “ten years of calamity” “ultra-leftist aberration” Chairman Mao and the cult of personality carnival of destruction/ “Lord of the Flies” cultural wasteland/ totalitarian propaganda

4. “Women hold up Half the Sky: How can we fail to transform nature?”

6. History of the Cultural Revolution • 1966-7: Radicalism and Red Guards • 1968-1969: Factionalism and Military Re-Imposition of Control • 1970-1976: Rise and dominance of the “Gang of Four” • 1976: Chairman Mao’s death • 1979-2009: “Reform and Opening” leading to marketization and globalization

7. The Culture of the Cultural Revolution Socialist mass culture and mass media: radio re-diffusion poster art cinema literature Penetration of rural areas and the problem of literacy and dialect Participatory cultures Cross-platform “marketing”: the case of the “Little Red Book” Underground and unofficial culture

8. Big character posters