The Chinese Girls Of Chang's Cultural Revolution
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By the time Chang joined the Red Guard, Mao’s rule was in full effect, as was his cult-like following and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. These times in China were meant to be times of renewal and growth away from all aspects of the old culture. While gender inequality had been an omnipresent restriction to Chinese women for centuries, the Cultural Revolution seemed to be the best hope for substantial change. The revolution’s focus on injecting new communist culture into China mixed with the communist ideal of total equality should have put an end to out of date gender roles, but it had an entirely different effect. Instead of liberating the female population, “… many Chinese girls of [Chang’s] generation were too dominated by the