Wikipedia's article on the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign, community-edited. Reliable for the campaign's dates, begun by Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing in 1973, openly launched in January 1974 and lasting until the Cultural Revolution's own end in 1976, and for its content: Confucius was denounced as a defender of slavery and an obstacle to historical progress, and Chinese history was recast as a struggle between Confucianism and Legalism, with the campaign's architects styling themselves as modern Legalists. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin,_Criticize_Confucius
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1973 to 1976 campaign dates, stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the Cultural Revolution's suppression of Confucius and Confucianism in China.
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