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The China History Podcast

Ep. 87 | The Cultural Revolution (Part 5)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2012

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the fifth installment of our China History Podcast overview of the Cultural Revolution we look at the milestone events of 1967: The February Countercurrent, 8 Point Program, 10 Point Program and the Wuhan Incident. Lots of blood and violence during this difficult year in China. Added to this was no small amount of political, military and social upheavel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, Laus le Montgomery again coming to you as always from the China History Podcast.com, your regular source for all the Chinese

0:37.2

history fit to podcast. It's a free service brought to you by the fine folks at the Montgomery

0:41.7

Foundation. We're at the Montgomery Foundation.

0:43.0

We're in the fifth installment of our Cultural Revolution overview.

0:47.6

I thought we were going to get to Leo Shaichi and his better half in this episode,

0:52.3

but that might be in part six or seven it's

0:54.8

coming up today we focus on a short but action-packed period where chaos

1:00.2

reined and there was high drama with even the great one himself,

1:04.8

Maal to Dung, having to step in to act as the decider.

1:09.3

But mostly it's Joanne Lai who has to use the full extent of his prestige and authority to deal with the

1:16.6

impossible tasks at hand. Mao was throwing incendiary bombs all over the place and Premier Joe had

1:25.0

share Mao on and at the same time run all over the place and put out fires.

1:31.0

Today we're going to linger in the crazy and bloody year of

1:35.2

1967. If Mao's objective was to create massive chaos in China, you know, where people were engaging in a whole lot of

1:44.8

ultraviolence, he succeeded.

1:48.6

You know, there are so many important characters from this Cultural Revolution period who played a major role at the time.

1:55.0

Most of them are forgotten or not well known, at least in the West.

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