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The Cultural Revolution in China
In the mid 1960s the young people of China were encouraged to turn on their parents and teachers in an attempt to rejuvenate Mao's communist state. Violence and upheaval followed.
In the mid 1960s the young people of China were encouraged to turn on their parents and teachers and 'criticise' them. It was part of Chairman Mao's plan to rejuvenate his communist state. Violence and upheaval followed as young Red Guards took his message to extremes. Paul Crook was a foreign teenager living with his family in Beijing. His whole world was turned upside down by the Cultural Revolution.
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