Join Professor Xiaobo Lü for a discussion on China's Cultural Revolution. The famine of the early 1960s, resulting from ill-conceived agricultural policies of the Great Leap Forward, led to economic retrenchment and political struggles in China that eventually led to Mao calling for a “Cultural Revolution” in 1966, which extended until Mao's death in 1976.
Participants are asked to review the following video presentation ahead of the session in preparation for Q&A and discussion of teaching approaches: The Cultural Revolution