Economic Necessity and Political Ideals in Educational Reform During the Cultural Revolution

Bibliographic Data

ID8091625
AuthorsMarianne Bastid (corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume42
Pages16-45
Publication date1970-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe China Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-4439 • E-ISSN: 1468-2648
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305741000049730
OpenAlexW2141619789
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited2

Educational reform has been one of the important issues raised during the Cultural Revolution, not merely because it belongs to the realm of culture but, more important, because it bears on the question of “cultivating revolutionary successors” and on the shaping of the whole future of China. Anyone seizing power wishes to keep it for a certain length of time; it is however a special feature of people's revolutions to set their goals on the prospect of a boundless future. In this regard, gaining power in education is not simply one side of the struggle for actual total power (mastering the “superstructure” as well as the “structure”) it is the guarantee of everlasting rule, on the assumption that the mind is ultimately the only thing man can rely upon and which is entirely within his grasp. As one slogan puts it: “The earth may shake, heaven may fall, but we shall ever be faithful to Chairman Mao

Aesthetics · China · Cultural revolution · Heaven · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Realm · Slogan · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Law · Philosophy

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