OUTLiNE

Zayda Cavazos

Humanities

Ms. Guerrero

Feb, 26 2009

Outline

I. Intro

A. Thesis- As depicted in Ji-Li Jangs book The Red Scarf Girl the Cultural Revolution had a great toll on the social classes in china.

1. Explain the Chinese Cultural Revolution

2. Who Chairman Mao was

3. What affect he had in the Chinese Cultural Revolution

4. How he influenced the fore olds and the little red book

II. New Social Hierarchy

B. How did the people begin to react

1. What was the reaction?

2. Talk about the classes and how they were affected

3. Explain about the poor classes and how they began to take charge

III. Red Guards take Charge

C. Changes by force/ propaganda

1. Explain about the Red Guards

2. What were they in charge of?

3. What was the affect on the people

IV. Higher Class lost respect

D. Effect

1. How was the wealthy class affected

2. Talk about the book we read

3. Examples from the book of how the wealthy classes were being treated

4. How it affected the main character from the story

V. Conclusion

E. Repeat/ mention the Thesis

1. What happened to china towards the end on the cultural revolution

2. When did the cultural revolution end

3. How did it end

4. What affect did it have on the people

NEW Thesis

As depicted in Ji-Li Jangs book "The Red Scarf Girl"the Cultural Revolution had a great tole on the social classes in China.

Thesis

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a huge impact on the people of china especially the ones in the highest class it was a time when they were considered the lowest in the classes this caused the people to go crazy as told in the story The Girl in the Red Scarf by Ji-Li Jiang.

New Research Question

After the Cultural Revolution was over how did it impact on the people and the economy?

QQC#2

Quote: "Life was very hard so hard that i could hardly breathe sometimes"

Question: Why is her life hard?

Comment: This quote was said from Ji-Li in the book the "Red Scarf Girl". The reason she said this was because her life had turned completely upside down due to the Chinese cultural revolution. And i think its true life is hard and sometimes you feel like you cant breathe but you just have to make the best of your life no matter how poor or how rich you are. I really liked this quote because people can relate to it.

Citation

One source I found in the History Study Center

Communist China, 1949-. ProQuest. History Study Center. ProQuest LLC. 12 Feb. 2009 .

I found a lot of good information in this reference about the way people were affected in this revolution and how leader Mao lead this Chinese Cultural revolution. Leader Mao was an early Communist Party member, he embraced agrarian revolution in the 1920s and emerged as the Party's pre-eminent leader during the Yan’an period. The people were affected and brain washed due to the disastrous economic mistakes and political machinations of CCP leaders left much of the population cynical about the Party and communism itself. The widespread official corruption of recent years has only compounded such sentiments. This website gives really good and specific information about the cultural revolution.

Red Scarf Girl

The book I am reading is the Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang. This book is mainly about the Chinese Cultural Revolution which took place during the 1966 in Central China. In the story the main character which is Ji-Li talks about how perfect her life was and how she had everything in her life that is until the Communism started in China also known as the Cultural Revolution. Then it started getting bad there where red guards everywhere watching your every move they would also check your houses for any items that were Forolds( which were old things or old custom's) people where pressed charges for rebellion.
?Research Question
Why did leader Mao Ze-dong influence and lead the Chinese Cultural Revolution and how did the people react?