- Showcase New China
- 1958-1959 (celebrate ten years after coming to power)
- Railway station
- Cultural Palace of nationalities
- The workers' stadium
- Remodelling of Tiananmen square
- - Extended to accommodate 500,000 people
- - Bigger than red square in Moscow
Destroying Traditional Values
- Land reform, collective and communes - destroying traditional hierarchy and family
- Leisure time for peasants - political meetings - Agit prop touring groups - films and theatre
- Cultural Revolution
- Museums, libraries, books, music, art all attacked
- Eight model operas - turned into films - main thing on offer in cinemas and rural projection units
- One of these was Tiger Mountain Strategy which by 1974 had been watched 7.3 billion times (7 pep person)
- Lack of freedom and creativity so the artistic production fell - e.g. only 124 novels written
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