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Jiang says the Cultural Revolution destroyed Chinese religion, tradition, and cultural identity, after which China became capitalist and then hyper-capitalistic.
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Cultural Revolution
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Jiang argues ordinary Chinese were in some ways happier during the Cultural Revolution than today because life was simple, certain, communal, and fertility-supporting despite poverty.
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Jiang says his family left China for Canada after his father experienced the Cultural Revolution and wanted a different future for him.
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Jiang says post-Cultural-Revolution Chinese exposure to pirated American movies created enduring goodwill toward America by presenting it as a promised land.
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He says communism contains an embedded eschatology and points to Mao's Cultural Revolution as an attempt to realize it.
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"...to Canada for better opportunities. My father had just experienced the Cultural Revolution, and he didn't want me to experience that as well. So,..."
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"...And China is an example of this, right? Think about the Cultural Revolution that destroyed religion. That destroyed tradition. That destroyed cultural identity. And..."
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"China had the fastest growth rate, economic growth rate in the world. How did that happen? Okay? So I'm not saying this is true...."
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"...okay and for them for Chinese because this is right after cultural Revolution right these pirate DVDs represent a revelation it was like the..."
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"...communism, there is embedded an eschatology. And Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution, he was the one who tried to bring about this eschatology...."
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"poorer during the Cultural Revolution people were a lot happier during the Cultural Revolution than they are today. Maybe not us, okay? But for..."
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"...You and I can disagree about that, but regardless, during the Cultural Revolution, people were motivated to make the self -sacrifice necessary in order..."
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"...was a high school teacher. And because he had experienced a cultural revolution, he wanted to. He wanted to escape. So we went to..."
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"...he got in touch because he wanted to know what the cultural revolution was like in China. And I told him like, you know,..."
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"...he enjoyed his job. But you know, this was during the Cultural Revolution. And when it ended in 1976, he died. And he looked..."
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"...in place then people's minds are cleared right that's what the cultural revolution was about it was to destroy all tradition all I think..."
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"...are you talking about some of the Western funding behind the Cultural Revolution and Mao all the way from that period forward, or more..."
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