| 单词 | cultural revolution |
| 释义 | > as lemmascultural revolution cultural revolution n. [in spec. use after Chinese wénhuà dà gémìng (in wúchǎn jiējí wénhuà dà gémìng, lit. ‘great culture revolution of the Proletariat’) or its abbreviated form wéngé] a sudden change in the culture of a people or society; spec. (usually with capital initials) an extreme reform movement in communist China, begun in 1966, which sought to combat revisionism by the restoration of pure Maoist doctrine. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > specific revolutions American Revolution1779 revolution1784 French Revolution1789 revolution1790 Fructidor1793 Russian Revolution1805 agrarian revolution1824 February Revolution1848 October Revolution1917 revolution1917 cultural revolution1929 velvet revolution1989 1929 Encycl. Britannica V. 546/1 (heading) The progress of the cultural revolution. 1931 G. S. Counts Soviet Challenge to Amer. 122 The Communist Party also recognizes the importance of the cultural revolution. 1966 Economist 20 Aug. 709/1 Lin Piao..has loyally used the army as a guinea-pig for the ‘cultural revolution’ dose of salts with which Mao is now purging the whole country. 1967 Guardian 16 May 1/3 Chinese leadership..has certainly been prepared to accept serious economic and political losses..for the sake of the ‘cultural revolution’. 1967 Economist 21 Oct. 274/1 They support Syria's ‘cultural revolution’ (the regime has just taken over control of its mainly religious private schools). 1975 A. Ginsberg in Spontaneous Mind (2001) 300 The cultural revolution in China, when everybody was told to get out of the cities and go back to work with the workers in the fields for a while. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Sept. 8/1 During the Cultural Revolution I was sentenced to reeducation through labor for my ‘reactionary thinking’. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xx. 197 What happened next was something approximating a cultural revolution, in the course of which Amsterdam became..a magnet for radical ideologues. < as lemmas |
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