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Bombard The Headquarters – My Big-Character Poster (Chinese : 炮 打 司令部——我的一张大字报; pinyin :Pào dǎ sīlìng bù——wǒ de yī zhāng dàzì bào) was a short document written by Chairman Mao Zedong on August 5, 1966, during the 11th plenary session of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, [1] and published in the Communist Party's official newspaper People's Daily a year later, on August 5, 1967.

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It is commonly believed that this "big-character poster" directly targeted Chinese President Liu Shaoqi and senior leader Deng Xiaoping, who were then in charge of the Chinese government's daily affairs and who tried to cool down the mass movement which had been coming into shape in several universities in Beijing since the May 16 Notice, through which Mao officially launched the Cultural Revolution, was issued. [2]

Many larger-scale mass persecutions followed the publication of this big-character poster, resulting in turmoil throughout the country and the death of thousands of "class enemies", including President Liu Shaoqi. [3]

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  1. ↑ "中国共产党大事记·1966年--资料中心--中国共产党新闻网". cpc.people.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  2. ↑ "第七章 十年"文化大革命"的内乱". www.gov.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  3. ↑ "集中共受害者与迫害者于一身的刘少奇". BBC News 中文 (in Simplified Chinese). November 12, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2024.
  4. ↑ 毛泽东. "炮打司令部——我的一张大字报". 人民网. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Mao, Tse-tung (2021). Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (PDF). Foreign Languages Press. p. 282. ISBN   9782491182489.
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