The main purpose of Cultural Revolution was to re-assert the authority of modern city and embrace from the ancient practices. By use of two primary resources, the paper will present a concept paper with a detailed account on the impacts of the Cultural Revolution on the lives of people. The social event is Cultural Revolution that happened in China during 1966 to 1976. And the short chosen story is talking about a scary experience that takes places in that period. The title of story is in Chinese. Therefore, here is the translation from myself, “A horror story in the Cultural Revolution”, the author is Ronghua Pu. One of my concepts is that the Great Cultural Revolution in China is a dark and antihuman period that makes normal people feel hopelessness. Soft Story-Resistance in a Nostalgic Key, by Qiao Gao and The Cultural Revolution A People's History by DIKÔTTER, FRANK are two sources to support the concept. Another one is that Great Cultural Revolution not only caused the effects for the inland of China but also gave huge influence to other places. ONE, TWO, THREE: EVALUATING “MACAU’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION” by AGNES I. F. LAM1, CATHRYN H. CLAYTON2 and Propaganda as Leftist Culture: Hong Kong’s Involvement in the Cultural Revolution by Luofu Ye. The short story has directly relation to first concept and reflect the potential phenomenon, which has connection with second resource.

  The narrator was still a child at that time, and one kind man who was host of an orphanage took narrator in. Even in orphanage, the proletarian cultural revolution is also so vigorous. The host of orphanage, Chen, was a soldier before. He had experienced 25,000 li on the Long March, which means he should be respected by people. But he was criticized and struggled by Red Guard. How ironic thing was that. This was the background of story. The main character of it was an old man. He worked in Jiuquan Post Office before liberation. Several members of Red Guard decided to capture him due to the reason that he probably was a spy when he was working at Post Office in Jiuquan. Then they began to torture the old man to push him to admit the accusation, he was a spy, that definitely not even happened. In the end, the old man could not endure the torture and admitted every accusation that the members of Red Guard said. He began to create stuff and nonsense, like the name of organization of spy that he participated in and the members of it. After he escaped from the hell, he couldn’t take this any more and did a hard decision, suicide. He wrote his miserable experience by using blood from himself on the clothes and ordered his family to conserve it very well. Until Cultural Revolution goes by, the “Gang of Four” fell from power, the son and daughter of the old man posted the truth to the public and show them the blood clothes. The several members of Red Guard were not going to have a good ending. Everyone got unexplained and rare illness. The worst one suddenly could not raise his arms. Then his mouth and nose skew, incontinence, all day dirty head Peng face, said stupid blankly and nonsense. It seemed like someone did curse for those men.

 In the mid-1950s, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union were the two biggest Communist states on the planet. While they had at first been commonly strong, differences emerged taking after the domination of Nikita Khrushchev to control in the Soviet Union after the passing of Joseph Stalin. In 1956, Khrushchev condemned Stalin and his approaches and in this manner start executing post-Stalinist financial changes. Mao and numerous individuals from the Chinese Communist Party were against these progressions, trusting that it would have negative repercussions for the overall Marxist development, among whom Stalin was still seen as a legend. 

   This paragraph is analyzing concept one Great Cultural Revolution in China is a dark and antihuman period that makes normal people feel hopelessness. In the article Soft Story-Resistance in a Nostalgic Key, by Qiao Gao will not directly tell us that the miserable life of people who lived during the Great Cultural Revolution but reflect it by a film, called Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, which is produced by Dai Sijie. The difference between this film and others is that it contains warm and idyllic memories of the Cultural Revolutionary era. Although it looks like so warm, in abstract, “Besides arguing against the popular diagnosis of global nostalgia, and uncovering the hidden messages of resistance to the Maoist culture and ideology in the film, it also discusses the Chinese mentality in dealing with trauma, the new modes of consumption and commercialization of history and memory, the influence of modernity and the global epidemic of nostalgia, and the meanings and problems of all these complications in the remembering and creating of the past.” (Qian Gao, 45) The author wants to tell that the warm and idyllic memories are just on the surface of Cultural Revolutionary era. The movie sees through the appearance of surface to perceive the essence that people were suffered from Cultural Revolutionary Period. I would not endeavor to examine the barbarities but rather focus on its prudent effects on China. Amid the ten years (1966-1976) of Cultural Revolution, all monetary exercises were ended. Training likewise went to a virtual end prompting to an era of deficiently taught people, creating a slack in innovation and abilities. Agrarian generation additionally stagnated and even non-agricultural preparations were upset by the political exercises of the Red Guards and even understudies. Normally yield at manufacturing plants were influenced because of deficiencies of crude materials, supplies and even work. Manufacturing plants were put under the course of progressive boards of trustees, who regularly had no learning of administration or how to run an undertaking. 

   The article Cultural Revolution A People's History by DIKÔTTER, FRANK introduces us the origin, pass and result of whole Cultural Revolution. “Determination to shore up his own standing in world history. Mao was sure of his own greatness, of which he spoke constantly, and saw himself as the leading light of communism, It was not all hubris. Mao had led a quarter of humanity to liberation and had then succeeded in fighting the imperialist camp to a standstill during the Korean War.” (September 2016 HISTORY TODAY 13) This paragraph shows the origin of Cultural Revolution quite clearly. The whole Cultural Revolutionary period is divided into four parts. “The Early Year (1962-66)”, “The Red Year (1966-68)”, “The Black Year (1968-1971)” and “The Grey Year (1971-1976)”. In “The Early Year (1962-66)”, Mao launched a project called the Great Leap Forward. In “The Red Year (1966-68)”, the organization, Red Guard, was shown up and started to destroy historical buildings. In “The Black Year (1968-1971)”, China was sucked into the phenomenon that the intellectuals were criticized and struggled by red guard. Some intellectuals were dead during torture and others decided to finish their life by suicide. In “The Grey Year (1971-1976)”, everyone is exhausted due to the crazy revolution. Farmers shared lands without control, workers built underground factories and business people opened black market. The whole country was not unity at that time. 

  All experts, including specialists, educators, teachers, researchers and professionals, religious pioneers, basically anybody with skill or learning were decried and arraigned begins in “The Red Year” to “The Black Year”. Industry generation diminishes quickly in “The Gray Year”. The railroad was to a great extent disturbed for they were utilized by the revolutionists to transport the general population around. Besides, the import of remote types of gear and hardware were to a great extent shortened. The economy of China as of now hit by the Great Leap Forward, is vacillating seriously. The subsequent harm was so gigantic and the objectives that Mao Zedong tried to accomplish stays subtle. Mao's examination yielded no advantage yet practically bankrupt the entire nation. It was a knife in the heart of China's economy. 

  Today, private enterprise has obviously invade China's economy and individuals have turned out to be more materialistic than before. Since Mao's demise, many changes were actualized. Prominently since starting business sector changes in 1978, China has moved halfway wanted to a market based economy and have from that point forward experienced quick improvement in its economy. 

  In spite of the fact that the Communist Party avowed that the Cultural transformation "conveyed genuine debacle and turmoil to the Communist Party and the Chinese individuals" they have put accuse to a great extent for the group of four and depicted Mao's legitimacy to have exceed his flaws. There is still much examination on this point by the Chinese government in China and eminently at the National Museum of China in Beijing, the social upheaval is scarcely specified in the recorded displays.

  In my chosen short story, the old man is captured by six people who are red guard merely because they think he used to be a spy and he used to work for Jiuquan Post Office. They catch the old man by warrant of arrest which is produced by themselves. What a ridiculous thing! It related to the second source, “The Red Year (1966-68)”. The beginning of the story is related to the first source, the narrator is being took in a hospice by a kind-hearted person, Mr. Chen. It looks so warm during that period. But it is not a good phenomenon in modern society.

  This paragraph will start concept two, Great Cultural Revolution not only caused the effects for the inland of China but also gave huge influence to other places. an article ONE, TWO, THREE: EVALUATING “MACAU’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION” by AGNES I.F.LAM and CATHRYN H. CLAYTON. The article describes an incident which happened in Macau, called ONE, TWO, THREE. The abstract summarizes the incident “In December 1966, the city of Macau erupted in mass protests and rioting targeted at buildings and symbols of Portuguese rule—unrest that was countered by military force that left eight residents dead, hundreds wounded, and dozens in jail. In the aftermath of the violence, protests continued, as community leaders used cultural Revolution rhetoric and tactics to try to force the Portuguese administration to accede to a series of escalating demands that included a written apology for its ‘crimes.’ As the Macau governor tried to convince Lisbon to allow him to compromise, China’s central government and the Guangdong Province government got involved, local residents refused to sell food to Portuguese residents, and thousands of Red Guards over the border in Guangdong Province seemed poised to invade.” (Agnes I.F.LAM and Cathryn H. Clayton 163) The rest of the summary is talking about how authors analyze the incident by using what kind of truth events from history. From the abstract, it is quite clear to reflect the effect that is caused by Cultural Revolution. Because Red Guard wants to get involved into the incident ONE, TWO, THREE. The members of Red Guard were most foolish people at that period. Their purpose is that if someone against Mao, the guy is an anti-Party criminal. They ignored the laws and agreement that China signed up with other countries and did everything that they thought was right to support the leader, Mao. However, the truth was the villagers broken the rules first to build the illegal school and fought with the police. The police fired the villagers for self-defense. It is obvious that Cultural Revolution affected other place’s people.

  The second source is talking about the Cultural Revolution’s influence to Hong Kong. Propaganda as Leftist Culture: Hong Kong’s Involvement in the Cultural Revolution, by Luofu Ye, is analyzing how Leftist Cultural changed under the influence of Cultural Revolution. The author divided the changes into 4 phases. First, Hong Kong’s Leftist Culture Before the Cultural Revolution, in the article, it says that “The prospect of a commercial landmark rather than a colonized ghetto qualified Hong Kong into an enjoyable destination of the laissez-faire economy and advanced social movements. The great pioneer of Chinese revolution, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, started to disseminate his revolutionary thoughts in Hong Kong.” (Ye) From this short paragraph, author wants to tell the purpose that before Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong is good at developing the Leftist Cultural. To be specific, Leftist Cultural has an important relationship with Cultural Revolution. Because during the period of Cultural Revolution, Red Guards and Mao were belonged to Leftist Cultural. Second, Propaganda as Leftist Culture in 1966, this subtitle means at the beginning of Cultural Revolution, the changes of Hong Kong’s Leftist Cultural. The Hong Kong’s Leftist Cultural in order to cooperate Cultural Revolution, began to report Mao’s quotation in local newspaper. Third, The 1967 Social Unrest in Hong Kong and Its Propaganda, during the Cultural Revolution, the Artificial Flower Factory were controlled by members of Hong Kong’ Leftist Cultural for no reason. The purpose is that they wanted to cooperate the inland’s Cultural Revolution. Then there was a conflict between workers and members of Leftist Cultural. The fourth phase, Consequences of the 1967 Social Unrest and the Leftist Culture Afterward, the Leftist Cultural was declining in 1967. In that period, Leftist Cultural were not popular any more. The younger generation began to hate the series of behaviors of Leftist Cultural.

    In my short chosen story, the second resource is related to the narrator when he was in young age, at that time, the younger were not supportable to Cultural Revolution. They hated and wanted to diminish it. The first resource seems to have no relationship with the short story. However, in the ONE, TWO, THREE, the local residents who are influenced by Cultural Revolution ignored the law to establish the illegal building and fought with Macau’s police. It is same mode to what happened in short story.

  In conclusion, even if the original intention of the Cultural Revolution was good, the decision-making mistakes of the leaders led to a decade-long mess. People living in dire straits can not extricate themselves. That is, in the past decade, China's economic back to the level of the 30s and 40s, began to lag behind the developed countries. This is one of the main reasons why we are still in the developing world. Mao and his era, who grew up in the midst of shortage, saw no space for power-sharing or for pluralism; he called for "drawing a reasonable qualification amongst us and the foe." "Who are our foes? Who are our companions?" This, Mao said, was "an issue of first significance for the upset." China today, in many regards, bears little correlation with the world that Mao possessed, however on that question Xi Jinping is consistent with his underlying foundations. That zero-aggregate view is misshaping China's relations with the outside world, incorporating with the United States. It was anything but difficult to ignore the news a month ago that China had stamped "National Security Education Day" by discharging a notice that cautions female government laborers about the risks of dating outsiders, who could end up being spies. As China, fifty years after the Cultural Revolution, measures the motivation to protect itself, at the end of the day, from remote impact, it merits considering that the expenses might be more extreme than we acknowledge continuously. The fall, Harvard University Press will distribute another history, "Far-fetched Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China," by Julian Geertz (Google), a doctoral understudy at Oxford. The book recounts the little-known story of how Chinese scholarly people and pioneers, confronting a destroyed economy toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, looked for the assistance of remote financial analysts to reconstruct. Somewhere around 1976 and 1993, in a progression of trades, meetings, and coordinated efforts, Western educated people looked for not to change China but rather to help it change itself, and they made key commitments to China's ascent as a worldwide financial power. "China's rulers were accountable for this procedure—they searched out Western thoughts and did not duplicate them unpredictably. Be that as it may, they were interested in Western impact and were significantly affected," Geertz let me know. "This history ought not to be overlooked. Also, at a minute when China's economy and society might waver, an arrival to this openness and organization with the West—instead of the move in the direction of scholarly seclusion and global mistrust that is by all accounts under way—is the best method for evading calamity." 
