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Displays like this turned Mao into a living icon, showing how culture was used to blur the line between political authority and personal worship.
Aims of Mao’s Cultural Policies
Mao believed that culture was a weapon of class struggle, and that it must be reshaped to serve the goals of Communist revolution.
His cultural policies aimed to erase traditional values and replace them with party-centred ideology, especially among the youth.
The campaign to destroy the Four Olds (old customs, habits, culture, and thinking) was meant to eliminate Confucianism, religion, and all feudal or bourgeois influence.
Mao also used culture to consolidate personal control, ensuring that only messages aligned with his vision reached the public.
How the Cultural Revolution Targeted Traditional Culture
The Red Guards were mobilised to attack symbols of old Chinese culture, including temples, books, statues, and ancestral shrines.
Libraries and museums were ransacked, and religious practices were banned. Confucian teachings were publicly criticised and denounced.
Intellectuals and artists were harassed or sent for re-education. Even wearing traditional clothing could be treated as anti-revolutionary behaviour.
Mao encouraged mass participation in cultural destruction to show that everyone had a duty to purify society of old values.
Reshaping Art, Theatre, and Cultural Expression
Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife, was placed in charge of cultural reform and led efforts to create a new revolutionary art form.
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Mao Zedong viewed culture as a powerful tool for shaping society and consolidating power. He believed that culture should serve the revolution and that traditional Chinese culture needed to be radically transformed.
Mao saw culture as a weapon of class struggle
He aimed to erase traditional values and replace them with Communist ideology
The goal was to create a new socialist culture that would support the Communist Party's objectives
DefinitionClass StruggleThe conflict between different social classes, particularly between the working class and the ruling class, which Mao believed was central to understanding society.
AnalogyThink of Mao's approach to culture like a gardener who wants to completely remove all existing plants (traditional culture) and replace them with a single type of flower (Communist ideology).
