Kaohsiung Established the World's First Export Processing Zone
In December 1966, Taiwan established the world's first export processing zone in Kaohsiung, attracting foreign companies such as Philips and General Instrument to set up operations.
In December 1966, Taiwan established the world's first export processing zone in Kaohsiung, attracting foreign companies such as Philips and General Instrument to set up operations.
In November 1966, Sun Fo and 1,500 others jointly proposed launching the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement to counter the Cultural Revolution on the mainland; in July 1967, the Promotion Committee was established.
In September 1966, with the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, the state completely stopped issuing fixed dividends to former private industrialists and businessmen, prematurely terminating the buyout period and completely zeroing out the status and assets of former capitalists.
During the Cultural Revolution, Lao She suffered denunciation and beatings at the hands of the Writers and Artists Federation; his wife Hu Jieqing was unable to hold him back, and Lao She ultimately ended his life by the Taiping Lake.
Mao Zedong posted the big-character poster 'Bombard the Headquarters' at the plenary session, pointing the spearhead directly at Liu Shaoqi. Liu Shaoqi's ranking within the party plummeted, marking his loss of power.
On July 8, 1966, Mao Zedong wrote to Jiang Qing from Wuhan, saying that "great chaos under heaven leads to great order under heaven," and said that such great chaos would come again after seven or eight years.
In May 1966, China's Cultural Revolution began, and the political campaign continued for many years thereafter.
The Cultural Revolution took place between May 16, 1966 and October 1976, during which multiple rounds of mass political campaigns were carried out. The masses were required to praise Mao Zedong and perform the loyalty dance; those who refused might be subjected to struggle sessions or re-education through labor.
On May 16, 1966, the "May 16 Notification" was issued and the Cultural Revolution began. Intellectuals at schools of all levels were struck, and Lao She, Fu Lei and others were persecuted to death.
Deng Xiaoping was labeled the second-numbered capitalist road faction within the Party, was sent to labor reform in Jiangxi, and his son Deng Pufang was tortured by Red Guards, resulting in disability.
In early 1966, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Pu Xuezhai jumped into the water with his younger sister and died; his body was never found.
The video narrator says a teacher in Tianfuli, Xujiahui, Shanghai, was repeatedly denounced by students, and was taken to denunciation sessions even while bedridden with a high fever; the family says the teacher was ultimately scalded to death with boiling water by students; no public record of this case can be found.
During the Cultural Revolution, a young worker in Shanghai was handed over by his work unit's security department to the police and sentenced to two years of re-education through labor after criticizing the bad-tasting noodles served in the canteen on Mao Zedong's birthday.
During the Cultural Revolution, the houses of families of former capitalists in Shanghai were confiscated by their work units or rebel factions, and many people were driven out of their own homes, left with only one room or even no housing at all; some were stripped of their clothes and forced to hand over their property, and many people, to save their lives, laid gold bars and silver dollars out in their homes to let the Red Guards take them away in raids. There were even cases of apprentices seizing their masters' houses and relatives turning against each other.
After the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, Hu Jintao was repeatedly subjected to struggle sessions and forced to write self-criticisms at Tsinghua because he was regarded as a lackey of Jiang Nanxiang's revisionist education line and as coming from a petty-bourgeois background; he neither defended himself nor took part in struggling others.
During the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jingzhi, Hu Jintao's father who was far away in Taizhou, was dragged out and denounced in the movement, framed on charges of embezzling funds from a cooperative shop, and ultimately died in depression.