 | Term | Definition |
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Moderates |
people who weren't crazy for communsim |
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Radicals |
people that WERE crazy about communsim |
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Deng Xiaoping |
Leader/founder of moderates |
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Mao's Goals for the Cultural revolution |
to make china red (communist), rid of all rightists |
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Victims of the Cultural Revolution |
9 bad categories, 4 black categories, the dead people |
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Quota System |
33% (1/3) must be counterrevolutionaries (so Mao thinks), so people were sent to find them |
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The Second Lost Generation |
the kids who were only taught Mao's teachings (didnt learn anything) |
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Lin Biao |
The man who wrote the Red Book, criticized Mao and planed to take over the country, but died in plane crash (so Mao says, Mao may have assasinated him) |
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Six Points of Public security |
people who oppose mao, bad leaders of the communists, hidden counterrevolutionaries, criminals, 4 bad types, (we dont know six) |
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"Black Hand" |
bad leaders of communists |
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Hidden Counterrevolutionaries |
Spies right under Mao's nose |
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Four Bad Types |
landlords, rich peasants (what?????), intellectuals, rightists |
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CLeansing of Class Ranks |
mao had the high gov't officials "ferret out" the lower ranked officials who had bad class rank (even though the high officials were the bad people anyway) |
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One hit, Three Anti |
the govament found one rightist and told him if he turned himself in and three others then he would be let go |
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Cultural Revolution Propaganda |
That Mao fix everything, but it was just the opposite. |
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China/US Relations |
Nixon started the "Ping Pong" way of trade and diplomacy w/ China since China is supposedly strong |
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One China |
Nixon thinks that if we aid Communist China then we aid Taiwan (rightist china) |
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President Nixon |
37th president of USA, opened up trade with China |
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"Down with Imperialism" |
Down with counterrevolutionaries |
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Uncle Fan |
One of Jili's dad's friends that was detained, was the one that turned Jili's dad in |
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Teacher Zhang |
Jili's teach, encourages jili throughout the story |
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foreign radio |
illegal in china |
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Workers Revolt |
The local paper |
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The Icriminating Letter |
a letter from the jiangs to the theater about the torture |
