Mao Tse-Tung: The Cultural Revolution

by DavidC in History, November 2, 2009

A short explanation of Mao’s Work during the Cultural Revolution of China.

The confusion caused by this conflict sent the government in to a downward spiral. The rightfully elected chairman was sentenced to death, so the government needed to be rebuilt. And so, national people’s congress reconvened. During this time that the government was restructured one of the leaders of the two sides of the revolution, Lin Biao wanted to seize the power of the chairman of the national people’s congress. He intended to do this by winning over Mao even though Mao had said himself that there would be no single chairman. After denying to be a chairman Lin made plans to kill Mao and take power himself. Mao had taken precautions against this, thinking that Lin would try this is not given his way, so Lin was thwarted.

The end of the Cultural Revolution came when the Chinese communist party found that Lin had planned to kill Mao. They were appalled that any person would try to kill a peace maker for the sake of keeping their own power; they condemned Lin to death. Mao was the leader in the creation of a great useless tragedy, the creator of peace in this tragedy and the person who led the party of communists. He did all of this because he was different from all of the other leaders. He was not one of the leaders that said “It has already happened, I don’t care anymore”, he was a leader who noticed he was wrong and took actions to prevent further wrongdoing. On September 9th 1976 Mao Tse-Tung, a savior and creator of a new china and a creator of tragedy, died. Though Mao died a new China lives on, different from other countries, just as Mao was different from everyone else.