The Anti-Lin Piao and Confucius Campaign

Its Meaning and Purposes

Bibliographic Data

ID8370524
AuthorsParris H Chang (corresponding author)
Year1974
Volume14
Issue10
Pages871-886
Publication date1974-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Survey (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-4687 • E-ISSN: 1533-838X
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2643362
OpenAlexW2052652524
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Since the beginning of this year, massive campaign criticize Lin Piao and has engulfed all spheres of life in China. In the course of the campaign, although many articles in the press have seemingly focused on questions of historiography (e.g., assessment of historical figures such as Confucius and Ch'in Shih Huang or the First Emperor of the Ch'in Dynasty) and have raised number of highly theoretical issues (e.g., the periodization of ancient Chinese history, the nature of Chinese society in certain historical periods, interpretation of the doctrines of Confucius and Legalists),1 the campaign is by no means an academic debate. As Red Flag has unequivocally stated, the campaign is a political question connected with present-day class struggle and the struggle between the two lines (capitalism vs. socialism). 2 There is no question that the campaign criticize Lin Piao and is manifestation as well as product of political conflict within the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) -conflict which has been gathering momentum since the Party's Tenth Party Congress, held in August 1973. To better understand the campaign and the political struggle, it is necessary to analyze the issues of contention in the CCP leadership and identify the participants in the conflict

Ancient history · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philosophy

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