Notes on Video
- Connect: How is the information presented in the video connected to what you have already read in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
- Extend: What new ideas did you get that pushed your thinking on the Cultural Revolution in new directions?
- Challenge: What question and wonderings do you now have about the Cultural Revolution?
- A lot of things took away from people, banned
- Anything capitalism related or Christian was removed
- The Red Guards were in control of it all
- Everything was made to promote Maoism
- Destroying past and heritage
- In the book, songs were not liked due to the westernisation
- The Mozart sedition, they changed the song name to make it less western so that they could play it
- Education was took away to avoid the different industries growing that Man didn’t want
- Education made people more aware
- Jobs need education which links with capitalism
Perspective Creative Writing Task
‘Young intellectuals.’ That’s funny. It’s not like we actually got the chance to be intellectuals yet; we only finished the part of middle school. How does it make sense to send us away from a place that would make us intellectuals to a place where we have to just work all day. Definitely don’t let us learn maths but make us stay in a field, because that will make us smart.
I guess it’s better I have a friend with me even though he’s a bit slow. I’m not sure that he’s like his parents, the doctors, but they did cause us to be brought to this re-education place so maybe that’s a good thing he doesn’t take after them; then we would be in more trouble. I don’t know what to think about mine. My dad, he got into some trouble as well so maybe I shouldn’t want to be like my Dad either too.
He was also sad about it. I probably shouldn’t have punched him. We don’t fight a lot, or at all really. I don’t know why I punched him. I shouldn’t have taken my anger out on him, it was my idea. I wanted to go to the hospital, he was just being a good friend. I was just ashamed.
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