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The 86 pages that link to Cultural Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• Deng XiaopingRelated: Deng was purged during the campaign, then restored as China’s leadership changed.

• Zhou EnlaiRelated: Zhou kept state administration functioning while the campaign endangered officials and institutions.

• Chinese operaRelated: Its restrictions transformed opera repertory and performance, including through model works.

• Censorship in ChinaRelated: Its campaigns against dissent and cultural expression left a lasting precedent for political control.

• Xi JinpingRelated: Xi’s adolescence included rural relocation during the Cultural Revolution.

• National People's CongressRelated: The upheaval interrupted normal congress activity and tested the legislature's institutional continuity.

• Lin BiaoRelated: The upheaval elevated Lin’s political standing and helped secure his designation as Mao’s successor.

• Chinese Academy of SciencesRelated: The upheaval interrupted research and altered the academy’s personnel and institutional operations.

• Liu ShaoqiRelated: The campaign targeted Liu as an alleged capitalist-roader and removed him from power.

• State Council of the People's Republic of ChinaRelated: The upheaval disrupted the functioning of central government, including State Council administration.

• Hu YaobangRelated: The campaign damaged Hu’s career before his later return to senior leadership.

• Yan'an Rectification MovementRelated: Later political campaigns drew on rectification practices while expanding mobilization and persecution on a far larger scale.

• Jiang QingRelated: Jiang Qing gained national influence by mobilizing its campaigns and cultural institutions.

• Four ModernizationsRelated: Its upheaval interrupted the modernization agenda and shaped its post-1976 revival.

• Hua GuofengRelated: Hua’s early policies defended aspects of Mao’s legacy, while later leaders condemned the campaign’s disruption.

• State atheismRelated: Its attacks on religious sites and clergy show how political campaigns could intensify religious suppression.

• Zhang YimouRelated: Zhang’s generation came of age amid its disruption, which later informed films about recent Chinese history.

• Chen KaigeRelated: Chen’s youth and interrupted education were shaped by this period.

• Peng DehuaiRelated: Peng was imprisoned and persecuted during this upheaval, dying before its end.

• Ding LingRelated: Ding Ling was persecuted and imprisoned during the campaign.

• Fifth GenerationRelated: Its interruption of schooling shaped the cohort’s delayed entry into professional filmmaking.

• Islam in ChinaRelated: Mosques and religious practices faced severe disruption during this campaign.

• Mao DunRelated: Mao Dun's public life continued through a period that profoundly affected writers and cultural officials.

• Political purgeRelated: Its campaigns combined elite struggles with widespread persecution of alleged political opponents.

• President of the People's Republic of ChinaRelated: The upheaval helped bring the presidency to abolition in 1975.

• Chinese film censorshipRelated: Its disruption of filmmaking shaped later memories of political control over cinema.

• Deng Xiaoping TheoryRelated: Its disruptions strengthened the case for stability and economic reconstruction.

• Hundred Flowers CampaignRelated: The campaign’s legacy of distrust and political labeling preceded a later, far more extensive upheaval.

• Liu XiaoboRelated: Liu’s youth unfolded amid its disruption, which later informed his reflections on Chinese political culture.

• Ye JianyingRelated: Ye survived the upheavals and helped dismantle the radical leadership that emerged from this period.

• Ancestor worship in ChinaRelated: Attacks on temples, genealogies, and ritual objects disrupted many forms of ancestral observance.

• Anti-Rightist CampaignRelated: The campaign's precedent for labeling enemies fed later cycles of political persecution.

• Cai ChushengRelated: Cai died during the early years of a campaign that devastated cultural life.

• Drepung MonasteryRelated: The campaign brought severe disruption and damage to Tibetan monasteries, including Drepung.

• Boluan FanzhengRelated: The campaign defined itself against this decade of upheaval and sought to repair its damage.

• Farewell My ConcubineRelated: The film’s later chapters show how political campaigns invade art and personal loyalties.

• Great Chinese FamineRelated: The famine's political aftermath preceded another upheaval that further constrained open discussion.

• He LongRelated: Political persecution during the Cultural Revolution led to He Long's removal and death in custody.

• The True Story of Ah QRelated: The novella’s critique of social attitudes was invoked and contested in later political campaigns.

• Ba JinRelated: Ba Jin was persecuted during this campaign, an experience he later addressed in essays and memoir.

• Lao SheRelated: Lao She died during its opening period after public humiliation and persecution.

• Mei LanfangRelated: The period disrupted traditional opera repertories and reshaped how Mei’s legacy was remembered.

• Mo YanRelated: Its violence and social rupture echo through Mo Yan’s depictions of modern Chinese history.

• Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityRelated: University teaching and research were disrupted during this period.

• Tangshan earthquakeRelated: The earthquake struck during its final months, shaping the disaster’s political setting.

• Xie JinRelated: The campaign disrupted his career and later became a subject of films such as Hibiscus Town.

• Xu XiangqianRelated: Xu’s career continued through this upheaval, when senior military leaders faced political pressure.

• Cao YuRelated: The campaign interrupted theatrical production and affected the conditions under which Cao Yu’s work could be performed.

• Education in ChinaRelated: Its interruption of formal education influenced later restoration and reform.

• Gao XingjianRelated: The period’s violence and ideological control recur in his fiction and personal recollections.