U. The Red Guards

The young Red Guards caused the death of uncounted millions of people. Mass destruction of temples, art objects, and buildings occurred. Their drive against the "Four Olds," old customs, old habits, old culture, and old thinking, caused enormous disruptions and death. Linfield has a reciprocal arrangement with a University in Chongqing that had open war on its campus with two factions; each claiming to be the true Mao followers firing shots at each other from the University buildings. Doctors, professors, scientists, and all intellectuals ended up out of their offices and onto the pig farms and countryside to be "reeducated." In 1974, Zhou Enlai became ill and Deng Xiao Ping replaced him as premier. When Zhou died in 1976 Deng again came under criticism and lost his job again. Mao died nine months later and Hua Guofeng became chairman of the Party. Shortly after that the government arrested the " Gang of Four " and blamed them for all the ills of the Cultural Revolution. Deng summoned from Sichuan where he had been banished and again became rehabilitated. Deng bolstered by some of his successes in Sichuan Province abolished the communes and re-instituted the family farms. The farmers have every right the American farmers have except one, they could not sell the land. Not unexpectedly, farm production soared.