Title:   "The Mao Years"

Speaker:   video

Topic/Issues:  

  1. early optimism of the PRC
  2. hyper-enthusiasm of the Great Leap Forward
  3. Mao in control: politics over reality
  4. retrenchment under the pragmatists
  5. attacking the "Four Olds", attacking the party - the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Resources:

  1. video, "The Mao Years, 1949-1976"  WGBH/PBS, 1994.  Sue Williams, director
  2. synopsis

Readings:

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Goals:

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