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Zhang Guang : 1960s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF MAO ZEDONG'S GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION HANDWRITTEN BY A CADRE DIRECTOR FORCED TO CONFESS TO HIS CAPITALIST SINS AND ANTI-SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES

4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. On offer is a super, original, late 1960s manuscript relic of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the cruel manipulation of the people as the politics of the times changed to the socialist agenda of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This document attests to the forced recanting of many former managers as evidenced by this document being a 38 page manuscript confession handwritten by a director of a local bureau during the revolution. This bureau or cadre manager, like many others in China, were called upon, forcefully much of the time, to expose and confess their so called crimes of anti-socialist revolution activity in the bureau they had worked in. This was unfortunately all too common during the Revolution and sometimes the results were fatal. This 19cm x 26cm 38 page document is comprised of papers held by paper clip with some small rusting to the clip and one page has a tape repair to the back. Overall G. HISTORICAL NOTE: As one online source succinctly sums up the times: "People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to enforce socialism in the country by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from Chinese society, and impose Maoist orthodoxy within the Party. The most important, yet naturally unstated, reason for the revolution was the return of Mao Zedong to a position of political power, after he lost most of his political influence after his failed Great leap forward.". Chinese Language. Book Condition: Good

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