The Cultural Revolution at Peking University

While heralding the Cultural Revolution when Mao Tse-tung gave the slogan of ‘Bombard the Bourgeois Headquarters’ and called upon the masses, communist cadres and revolutionary youths to struggle against the bourgeois line in all arenas of superstructure including education and culture and ensure the victory of proletarian line, then Peking University was one among the university campuses that were most influenced by this. The reason was that the Peking University was at the centre of socialist experiments in the field of education and the two-line struggle right from the 1949 revolution and especially during the periods of the Great Leap…