In this picture there are many people cheering for chairman Mao as they walk they hold a huge picture of Mao. The artist had drew the picture with everyone smiling in it as if there lives have never been better, so the artist is portrayed chairman Mao as the best thing that has ever happened to them and to there country. With all the people around a huge picture of the chairman this is meant to show that the people are loyal supporters and are prepared to follow him.
Question 3
Study source, do you think this is a reliable account of the activities of the red guards? Explain your answer.
In some ways this statement could be taken as reliable and as unreliable, this is a eye witness account on to what happened would make me seem it was reliable but I had to consider all possibilities such as the person was only 12, so to him was a long time ago. He could have forgotten many things also he could have exaggerated which would have made the experiences not very detailed.
Not long after this event Liang Heng became a red guard he may have not written all the truth as he must of sympathised with the Red Guards when describing this event in 1966 also as Laing Heng join the Red guards he might still believe in chairman Mao’s ideas .
This could also be a very reliable statement as there are other statements written by other people, such as former Red Guards and victims of the of them say pretty much the same, about the actions of the Red Guards, they have explained the ordeals they went through.
Question 4
Study source D+E, do you think that the message of these cartoons are the same explain your answer.
The messages of these two cartoons aren’t the same they give across different points and different meanings, although they do agree in some as parts they do agree for example they both use violence to get the point across also they both show someone striking down any think that is anti-communist or pro capitalism, the main think that is different though about the two, is that they were drawn by different countries, source D was drawn by the Chinese government and it was for communism and source E was drawn by an American who were against communism which mean source E is anti communist .source D is for Mao is shows an army of Red Guards destroying capitalism and all the poor people rising up against it. This cartoon was made in China and was most likely influenced by the Chairman Mao. Cartoon E was made in America who was very anti communist is shows someone speaking up in a communist China and then being knocked down this shows that no one is aloud to speak up against Mao’s ideas and if they did they will be brought down. And in the last section of the cartoon no one speaks up because if they did they will be struck down just like people before who spoke up against Mao. Source d doesn’t picture Mao in it, like on most of the posters or cartoons about china do. But it still does kind of show his the power behind all the Cultural Revolution. Source E is telling people that Mao is not running the country properly source D shows that Mao’s ideas are right and capitalism is wrong and any one who is pro capitalism will be crushed. These two cartoons both give their point across by using violence.
Question 5
Study source F+G. Do the authors of these two sources support the Cultural Revolution.
Explain your answer!
In both sources there are areas of agreement at the start in source F she says how good the Cultural Revolution was a really good thing as it opened up peoples mind to all the bad things that were going on in the country and to to how bad communism was. The person is source G is a former ex Red Guard so I presume that he will be in favour of the communists, but also just ;like in source f he tell tales of bad things that had being going on he describes acts of horrific violence that had been done by the Red Guards. Both sources describe acts of violence
Question 6
study sources h and I, which of these two sources is more useful as evidence of the Cultural Revolution.
in many way each source is as useful as each other, source H is called a visual source and it shows what’s was happening at that time so itr must be a very reliable. Source I on the other hand is an account by a Red Guard but both could be hiding the truth for example the source H could have been published as a source of propaganda and the picture could only be showing the good this that were going on “ not showing the whole truth”. in source I , the Red Guard may have exaggerated the incident as there was a time gap so he may have forgotten things the way they really were. Also he could have said that to say how good the Red Guards were at fighting capitalism, his statement is written very strongly and he does not seem to show any remorse to what he talk about. But the things he described were the kinds of things that were going on at that period of time, and we know this though other sources. Both of these sources are very useful but in different ways, source H is a visual source and it shows what was going on in picture form and source I gives the people an insight to what the states of minds people were then!
Source 7
Do sources J and I agree or disagree about the Cultural Revolution?
These two sources agree and differ for example in both sources we were told of university professors were made to clean toilets and other demeaning jobs
This was made as a punishment for being capitalist. But in source I the Red Guard talk about putting the teaches and professors in jail because intellectuals were said that resist the communist way and develop a bourgeois way of thinking. There are two differences between the sources source I is against intellectuals because it is being told by a Red Guard but source J is in favour of intellectuals because he is one that means that they disagree they also disagree because source I says that the Revolution was worth it because keeping intellectuals alive would not have cost society as it did but source J is saying that the revolution set China back 20 years because you people has missed out on there education
