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Cultural Revolution - Patreon Early Access (Patreon)

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2025-09-13 11:49:44
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2025-09-16 11:09:26
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Dear Patrons,

I am delighted to share the world premiere of RISE OF CHINA PART 5: Cultural Revolution!

In this mammoth episode, we cover Mao's return to frontline politics, the fervour and fear of his 'Cultural Revolution', and the sharp divisions emerging within the CCP between modernisers and loyalists. We also look at China's rising status on the world stage, the famous era of 'ping pong diplomacy', and the passing of three titanic Chinese leaders... This episode packs a lot in.

Congratulations to Harry the Editor for his heroic achievement on this episode. Our deep thanks to Contemporary Films for supplying us with the stunning footage of 1960s China. And thanks as ever, to YOU - for supporting our work!

We look forward to your thoughts and comments. There is one more episode in this series to come, plus more American Revolution, Thirty Years War, WW2 Episode 2, and more. Updates soon...

Toby

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MitchyCool

Right as I wake up…just what I need to start the work week!

JW

Thank you again for the quality of your work

Noel Rwebugisa

This is so excellent thank you so much

Kevin Xu

First off, I’d recommend 1Dimes hour long video on the cultural revolution for anyone interested in the complexities of the time period My only suggestion for this video is that the attacking on literate people is a bit contradictory, given that Red Guard were literate to read the Red Book. In fact, mass education, a keystone achievement during Mao’s time, specifically pushed literacy as a goal. It’s more accurate to say that specific books and reading them was cause for suspicion. Female empowerment also is a bit muted here. A part of the four old was the remains of Confucian patriarchy, which came in the form of active participation of women in the red guard movement, and the burning of family tree books by even the village families such as my own. While there are many regrets on the cultural heritage destruction part, most of it is focused on damage to large religious monuments and other art works(ironically, tomb items were least affected in the provinces due to persistent caution despite the atheist mindset). But no one is asking for Confucian patriarchy to come back, much less from the women in urban areas who have quite different level of social standing and cultural expectation from other East Asian countries today. Yes, there is still a very heterosexual and child raising expectations(especially in the provinces), but Chinese society overall has a high age expectation for raising children, and more responsibility given to grandparents as women are seen as more equal breadwinners. Overall the cultural revolution also needs to be seen as a great awakening sort of event. There are perpetrators who instigated and encouraged violence for their own purpose, but there was also plenty on the foot soldiers who saw it as a spiritual calling. This came as part of violence against the four olds, but also as part of the going to the fields to do the work of the common peasants, akin to missionary service for evangelicals. So while it was a punishment, it’s still considered a formative part of communist education for leadership, and doing some mountain infrastructure with nothing but hand tools and egalitarian willpower of belief is still lofted up by media and popular culture. It should also noted that within China, atleast from my family reflection, Zhou’s mourning was very intense and long, his guiding hand during the cultural revolution and being the first of the founding father generation to pass played into the shock and mourning. On the international side, I think it’s a shame that the warm up between US and PRC is mostly seen as the Soviet split and border spat of the time, and not the various larger geopolitical concerns such as Mongolia and Vietnam where there were tensions as well

Leylan

It would be great to make next episode about deng xiaoping legacy - xi jinping. And lastly xi jinping legacy to this day - to the present day Donald trump who incite trade war in 2018 and what happen next after liberation day 2025. what state china is in 2000s and today's 2025.

George

"The deep trauma ... lasts till today". Yes it does.

EpicHistoryTV

Just one more episode in this series, mostly focused on Deng and the economic transformation.

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks Kevin, lot of interesting thoughts here. Regarding the attacks on 'literate' Chinese, we did not mean to imply they attacked Chinese people who could read and write, but rather those who were 'literate' in the sense that they were well-read, bookish or intellectual.

TankerBricks

Excellent video! A good watch after a long day at work!

Christian Glerup Nybo

Thanks for the video! Is there a roadmap that explains the order of which videos are coming out?

The Imperialist

Amazing episode as always. I love that you cover the not so widely known topics of History such as this one. What are the plans after this series?

Graf von Kielmansegg

There is truely noone who can create better history videos than the Epic History team! Amazing video and great visual editing!

Eli Khanam

Thank you for releasing this video just a day after me watching Farewell My Concubine, and on my birthday just after seeing the new Demon Slayer movie and was feeling like watching something on modern Chinese history!

Steps TV

Dont care about this series rlly tbh sorry

Filip Petrovic

Deng Xiaoping is somewhat of a personal idol of mine. Him along with Lee Kwan Yew utterly transformed their countries for the better. Something that most leaders today do the exact opposite.

EpicHistoryTV

Not really! The list at the end is as close as it gets atm, but look out for updates in the newsletter.

HanzChen

My family met Mao during the Long March when he visited our village and my great-uncle cooked for him and his inner-circle. Mao came back to the village in the 60s to thank the village for their support. A real example of a Leader.

shrubby1989

I hated that little red bastard book. Even as a child it was a wagging finger in my face that was scummy and contradictory. I despised those red guard images with a vengeance as well

SCL

Fantastic video as always and thank you for all the hardwork!

Timothy Fisher

This was a great episode, but I do kind of wish it had mentioned, if only brielfy, the conflicts in Indochina; Specifically China's support for North Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and later, China's invasion of Communist Vietnam in 1979 after the toppling of the Khmer Rouge. It may have been a brief war (lasting 3 moths), but it's a very interesting yet widley forgotten one that more people should know about. Unless this will all be mention in the next episode that is.

rayski

Never thought I’d hear the word frosty in this series….excellent addition to the library and thank you🫡

Kevin Xu

Blowback had a good series where the mutual interest of the Khmer Rouge from China and the US is explored

Kevin Xu

Careful, we haven’t gotten to Tiananmen video yet unfortunately . Deng deserves both sides of the neoliberal coin: you don’t get a massive foreign investment influx and mass efficient industrialization without clawing back enough iron bowl promises and state jobs and also allowing local officials to get a bit greedy from the development frenzy.

EpicHistoryTV

The war with Vietnam does get a brief mention in the final episode.

Diego Zancan Bonomo

Fantastic episode. Please do not stop and go all the way to Xi’s rule.

WYAT-293

Hello! Another great video! Small comment, I noticed that there may have been a possible error at 2:45, where old habits and ideas should be swapped with each other? 习惯 (xi guan) is habits in mandarin, and 风格 (feng ge) which generally means style, could be substituted out for ideas. Other than that, great objective content as always!

JLB

Good video Epic History, but 'literate' literally means being able to read and write, whereas what you should have said is 'erudite' or members of the 'intelligentsia' when referring to the attacks on intellectuals and the professional classes. Can you also please cover 2000-2025 in your next video as that is when most of the West's outsourcing and FDI to China occurred with China's accession to the WTO and the consequent massive GDP growth.

MitchyCool

Even the man who “reformed” the Chinese emperor into a “citizen” was horribly caught in the cross-fire of the cultural revolution.

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks! We'll take another look at that.. it has been translated different ways over the years..

EpicHistoryTV

Thanks! Literate also means 'having or showing knowledge of literature, writing, etc.; literary; well-read'. We're only going up to about 2000 in this series - we leave current affairs to others!

TankerBricks

Having studied a bit about the Chinese Civil War (1946-1949) and aftermath, I can say that I believe that Chiang was on the verge of defeating the Communists when two words altered the course of the war ending in humiliation for the Nationalists: American Pressure. Also the fact that the People's Republic of China claims most of the glory over the war against the Japanese is overblown. Yes the Communists did some fighting- Hundred Regiment's Offensive being one of them but the Nationalists did the bulk of the fighting with most of their best troops being in Burma helping the British 14th Army.

Chhanun Rith

This episode is really hype, especially for those who enjoy political strategic and love to study about powerful man

Stuart Carver

Awesome as always this is quickly becoming my favourite series by you. I really like the concept of a deep dive series focusing on a countries history through the 20th century. A US version could be a good follow up if ever do a civil war series. It could do some background on reconstruction then straight into the gilded age all the way to 9/11. I’d love to know how Dr Chang assesses Mao if she gave you any particular insights? Same for Harry as well.

roberto perez

U should do one of the soviet union or the warsaw pact

Jakob Barron

There were a lot of angry losers in the comments on YouTube saying you were biased against the communists. If they hated the last one, they’ll HATE this one

TankerBricks

I mean, your going to get hate whatever aspect you try to approach the topic from, I guess EHTV is trying the neutral approach?

EpicHistoryTV

We're used to catching it from both sides these days - it feels like confirmation we're doing a good job at objectivity!

Chhanun Rith

I would like to ask, how to make the ink spread like your team did? Example: 0:42 What effects did your team used? Thank you very much.

EpicHistoryTV

We use an ink spill matte - you will find many are available for free on the internet.

tft Meng

I wonder if in the distant future, historians will use EpicHistoryTv in the same way that today we gain our knowledge ancient historians (for example Cicero LOL)

EpicHistoryTV

I hope not! Cicero was an eye witness, whereas we build on the works of other historians.