Chinese Mathematics Revision in Accordance with the Teachings of Mao Tse-Tung

1971 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 615-619
Author(s):  
Frank Swetz
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
The West ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Confucian Teachings ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

From 1962 until the present, the Great Cultural Revolution has been transforming the thoughts and lives of the citizens of the People's Republic of China. Confucian wisdom has been replaced by the philosophy of Chairman Mao. Reports reaching the West indicate how diligent study of the “Little Red Book” has assisted its readers in “increasing the speed of rotation of my cotton spinning machine from 9,000 r.p.m. to 13,000 r.p.m.” or “becoming world table tennis champion” or even “curing the children at our school of short-sightedness.”1 As Confucian teachings formerly did, so now the doctrines of Maoism form the foundations of the Chinese educational system. The most vociferant attacks of the Cultural Revolution have been directed at education, with the result, that every subject taught, even mathematics, is considered in the framework of Mao's teachings.

Curb that Enticing Tone

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hon-Lun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This chapter examines music censorship in the People’s Republic of China and its relationship to socialist ideology. After assessing the ideology of socialist music in the PRC, the chapter provides some examples of music censorship during the country’s history. It then highlights some of the intricacies and complexities in present-day music censorship in the PRC, including censorship on the Internet. It considers the musical genres that were taken out of the PRC’s soundscape, including Shanghai pop, and the return of pop-style songs after the Cultural Revolution following the adoption of the Reform and Open Policy. It analyzes the factors that explain why rock and roll never quite overcame its marginalized status in the PRC and has always been treated with caution by the state. The chapter concludes by focusing on music censors and censored music in the PRC.

Chinese Textbooks, Fourteen Years on

1980 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 535-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Price
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Chinese Classroom ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This paper is intended to serve as a contribution to the study of school textbooks in the People's Republic of China, and, in particular, as a first look at such books since the Cultural Revolution and the death of Chairman Mao Zedong. Because of the nature of the sample it makes no claim to being definitive. But the near-impossibility of obtaining such books abroad and the dominant role they play in the Chinese classroom give the subject some importance.

scholarly journals Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalton Rawcliffe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
British Government ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This article seeks to explain the transnational development of Maoism in the attempt to legitimise the Cultural Revolution and the 1967 Hong Kong Riots to Britain’s ethnic Chinese populace. Based primarily on a survey of ethnic Chinese in Britain undertaken by the Hong Kong government in 1967, both the British and Hong Kong governments were forced to respond to the transnational expansion of Maoism, transmitted by the People’s Republic of China and embraced by certain members of Britain’s Chinese community who faced inequality and discrimination under British rule. This Maoist agitation in turn forced Britain to commit to the welfare of its Chinese community and foster the idea of a Hong Kong identity that was distinctive from Maoism.

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