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Friday

Friday. Do now: discuss with the person across from you which moment you chose to write about in your flash narrative. Please put your flash narratives in a pile in the middle of your desks. Agenda. Friday good news! (positive bragging, tattling)

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Friday

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  1. Friday • Do now: discuss with the person across from you which moment you chose to write about in your flash narrative. • Please put your flash narratives in a pile in the middle of your desks.

  2. Agenda • Friday good news! (positive bragging, tattling) • Background information for Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress • Ticket out the door

  3. Chinese Cultural Revolution World Lit – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

  4. Key terms • Confucianism • Communism • Mao Zedong • Cultural revolution • Re-education

  5. Cultural Revolution:Questions to Consider • How does a country get to the place described in the first part of Balzac? • How do leaders grab and keep power?

  6. Background: Confucianism • 551-479 BCE • Main ideas: • Love and Compassion • Respect for Elders – Filial Piety • Education • Ritual • Humility

  7. Before World War II: Civil War in China Nationalists • Chiang Kai-Shek • Southwest • Capitalist (private ownership, competition) Communists • Mao Zedong • North • Communist (classless society, collective ownership)

  8. World War II

  9. World War II • US sends $1.5 billion to China during World War II. • Where do they send it? • What do they do with it?

  10. World War II

  11. Civil War Again • 1946-1949 • Nationalists’ advantages: • Outnumber communists 3:1 • US Financial Aid • October 1949, Mao wins • Economy • Confucianism

  12. China Under Mao: 1949-1961 • Mao needs to keep public support • 80% of China’s population is rural • 10% of rural population control 70% of land • Agrarian Reform Law • Five Year Plan – 1953 • Communes • Great Leap Forward - 1958

  13. Mao Steps Back • Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping step in: Practical Communism (vs. Mao’s ideal) • Mao collecting lists of artists, writers, and scholars who he has labeled “reactionary bourgeois” • Drama of the Ming Mandarin • Red Scare in reverse!

  14. Cultural Revolution – May 1966 • Society of Peasants and Workers: All Equal • Bourgeois are dangerous and anti-revolutionary • Intellectuals & artists are useless & dangerous • Red Guards: purge • Re-Education - 1968

  15. Re-education • Program begins in 1968 • Forced intellectuals/educated to purify themselves with hard labor in remote villages • “Thought reform through labor” • Balzac: youths have been deemed “intellectuals” and have been sent to the countryside to become re-educated by the village

  16. Aftermath • Widespread chaos • Decrease in production • Civil war looming • Mao dies, Revolution ends 1976

  17. Questions We Considered • How do leaders grab and keep power? • How does a country get to the place described in the first part of Balzac, and in the video?

  18. Clarification! • Balzac was not a member of the Communist party, nor was he a leader in China • Honore de Balzac is a 19th century French writer and playwright

  19. Ticket out the door What is working well for you in this class? What would you like to see more of? What are you looking forward to this weekend?

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