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Struggle session
A struggle session of Liu Shaoqi, former President of China, who was persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution.[1][2] Red Guards were holding the "Little Red Book" containing quotations from Mao Zedong.
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
批斗大会
Traditional Chinese
批鬥大會
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
pīdòu dàhuì
Wade–Giles
p'i1-tou4 ta4-hui4
IPA
[pʰítôʊ tâxwêɪ]
Tibetan name
Tibetan
འཐབ་འཛིང
Transcriptions
Wylie
'thab-'dzing
Lhasa IPA
tʰʌ́msiŋ
Struggle sessions (Chinese: 批斗大会; pinyin: pīdòu dàhuì), or denunciation rallies or struggle meetings, were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being "class enemies" were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured, sometimes by people with whom they were close.[3][4][5][6] These public rallies were most popular in the mass campaigns immediately before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, and later during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), with an aim to instill a crusading spirit among the crowd to promote the Maoist thought reform.[3][4][7][8]
Struggle sessions were usually conducted at the workplace, classrooms and auditoriums, where "students were pitted against their teachers, friends and spouses were pressured to betray one another, [and] children were manipulated into exposing their parents".[6][9][10] Staging, scripts and agitators were prearranged by the Maoists to incite crowd support.[5][9][10] In particular, the denunciation of prominent "class enemies" was often conducted in public squares and marked by large crowds of people who surrounded the kneeling victim, raised their fists, and shouted accusations of misdeeds.[5][9][10][11]
^"Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969)". Chinese University of Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 2018-06-04.
^Ramzy, Austin (2016-05-14). "China's Cultural Revolution, Explained". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-01-14.
^ abSong, Yongyi (August 25, 2011). "Chronology of Mass Killings during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)". Sciences Po. Archived from the original on 2024-01-14. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
^ abWang, Youqin (2001). "Student Attacks Against Teachers: The Revolution of 1966" (PDF). The University of Chicago. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-04-17.
^ abcSullivan, Lawrence R. (2011). "Struggle sessions". Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party. p. 390.
^ abLu, Xing (2004). "Denunciation rallies". Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication. pp. 140–141.
^Meeting, Association for Asian Studies (1990-01-01). Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0113-2.
^Fang, Jucheng; Jiang, Guinong. "第九章 颠倒乾坤的"文化大革命"" [Chapter 9 The "Cultural Revolution" that turned everything upside down]. People's Net (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
^ abcWang, Youqin. "文革"斗争会"（上）" ["Struggle sessions" in the Cultural Revolution (Part 1)] (PDF). Leaders (in Chinese): 128–143. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-13 – via The University of Chicago.
^ abcWang, Youqin. "文革"斗争会"（下）" ["Struggle sessions" in the Cultural Revolution (Part 2)] (PDF). Leaders (in Chinese): 110–127. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-05-05 – via The University of Chicago.
^Lipman, Jonathan Neaman; Harrell, Stevan (1990). Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture. SUNY Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 9780791401156. OCLC 18950000.
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