{"id":5256,"date":"2025-10-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2025-10-05T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:07:21","slug":"beijing-after-the-cultural-revolution-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-propagandisticos\/pekin-despues-de-la-revolucion-cultural-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing after the Cultural Revolution (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This map was published in 1967 in China by the Red Guards, in the context of the Cultural Revolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Guards was a movement promoted by Mao Zedong among secondary school and university students, which later spread to other groups and areas of Chinese society. This map shows the changes promoted in Beijing, the capital of China, after the Cultural Revolution, with the aim of putting an end to the Four Olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea, which is propagandistic in nature, focuses on the streets that were renamed in August 1966, following the revolutionary victory. The two most notable changes are that the street where the Soviet embassy was located was renamed Anti-revisionist road<\/em> and that the street where most of the Western embassies were located was renamed Anti-Imperialist Road<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official title of the map, which can be seen at the top, is Beijing, centre of the world revolution<\/em>, which makes direct reference to other propaganda pieces such as this one, which places China at the centre of the global revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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