I am starting to read “The Three Body Problem” by Cixin Liu and I am having trouble understanding the setting at the beginning. It started in 1966 during China’s Cultural RevolutionI am bad at history in general and being American my historical education is pretty American/European-centric I think I am mostly confused about the motivations of the two sides. Like I know Mao was trying to keep his position from a post on here, and he insulted the youth with propaganda I guess. But I am confused as to what the movement was about what they were moving against and what the outcome was. Idk how relivant it is for the book but it seems like something I should understand in general. Thank you for any help.
Edit: Oh yeah. The part I think is most relevant to the book and that I do not understand is why they are against these proffesors.
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The cultural revolution was about using central power and policies to change and “fix”, systemic cultural norms that were considered problems. Imagine instead of complaining about ‘woke”, you were arrested and sent to reeducation camps for being woke. In particular, cultural norms are often embedded in education systems, especially at higher levels (see current critiques of “woke colleges” and laws being passed to govern what is discussed on campus). I should note that this idea of forcing the population to have the “right” cultural norms isn’t just a left-right thing.
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