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Essay Assignment

Write an essay outline about The negative impact of the Cultural Revolution on China's economy, culture and education.

Thesis statement:The cultural revolution had many negative impacts on several areas, such as economic, education and culture, thus leading China's development to stop for 10 years, in addition, the soul of that generation of citizens were caused indelible harm.

Introduction: As Heberer argued that the ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution' is a political and social movement in the territory of the People's Republic of China between May 1966 and October 1976, which could be seen as a great Chinese trauma in twentieth century, and the party leadership declared this period to be a "ten-year catastrophe, which had led to national chaos" in 1991. (2009:165) This essay will outline and critically evaluate three key areas that were influenced strongly in the Cultural Revolution. ( Heberer, 2009:165)

Economic

1 As Harmel state, Poor quality of many economic infrastructures resulted in a slow development of economic because the government built a great number of factories which could immediately offer twenty million to have a work at the end of the Cultural Revolution. (Harmel,2016:40)

2 During the period of the Cultural Revolution, the whole ten years, the government did not increased wages, but after the 1977s, the government had greatly increased wages, which resulted in inflation. (Zhou,2016:289)

Education

Cultural

Conclusion.

Articles:

1. Attitudinal Differences within the Cultural Revolution Cohort: Effects of the Sent-down Experience by Robert Harmel and Yao-Yuan Yeh.

2. The Long-term Impacts of the Cultural Revolution: A Micro-Analysis by Dong Zhou.

3. The "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution": China's modern trauma by Thomas Heberer.