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The China History Podcast

Ep. 88 | The Cultural Revolution (Part 6)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we finish off 1969, a year that not only saw internal revolt and anarchy but also saw armed border confrontation with the Soviet Union in the freezing northeast. Chairman Mao Zedong pulls out all the stops to quell the violence and rebellion that he himself called for at the outset of the Cultural Revolution. Mao’s chosen successor, Lin Biao loses favor with The Great Helmsman. As China enters the 1970’s the Cultural Revolution, though tarnished, still has plenty of life left in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.8

Hey everyone, Lhasa Montgomery here with another China history podcast. Today we're doing part six of our Cultural Revolution overview. In our overly long episode last time, we ended with the Wuhan incident of July 20th, 1967 and the subsequent

1:16.5

torching of the British embassy in Beijing. There are so many milestones in

1:21.4

defining moments in the Cultural Revolution that finally led to this summer

1:25.9

of 1967 when Mao's mass movement started to go off the rails in a big way.

1:31.9

This led to all kinds of sometimes desperate efforts to the it looked like this, you know, no matter how bad it was, was all normal and find out ways to

1:44.8

spin every disaster so that, you know, looked like a great success, one of Chairman Mao's specialties,

1:51.8

fortunately.

1:53.0

With all these social and political chaos, and now chaos in the military as well,

1:58.0

it finally got so bad that even Mao allowed Joe and Lai to talk him out of continuing on with this whole thing,

2:07.0

at least in the manner in which Mao was carrying things out.

2:10.0

And it all sort of built up to this moment when the party center saw that they were losing

2:15.9

that comfortable feeling of control that they always enjoyed since day one.

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