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Causes

• With the failure of the great leap forward, mao's reputation and standing in the party was damaged.
• In 1962 President Liu Shaoqui and General Secretary Deng Xiaoping were invited to take over and correct the damage.
• Their Solution
  • Restoration of capitalist system
  • Admission that communism had failed
• Mao worried about their threat within the party
  • Regretted giving up Chairmanship in 1958
  • Regretted making less public appearances after 1958
  • Wu Han Crackdown
    • Play set in early dynasty
    • Called The dismissal of Hai Rai from office
    • Story about a courageous government official and his defiance of a corrupt dictator

Solution

• Compiled little red book
• Politicised army
• Prescribed for every school and curriculum.
• Slogan "Learn from the PLA"
  • Necessary to have it with you all the time
• 1963 Diary of Lei Feng
  • Truck driver
  • Socialist Martyr
  • Fabricated
• Jiang Qing urges action against opponents

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