Cultural Revolution

-Bourgeois is a characteristic of the middle class that usually refers to highlighting the materialistic values or conventional attitudes of a given society.

-Mao Zedong was a Chinese Marxist statesman. He was the chairman of the Communist party of the Chinese People's Republic for a decade (1949-1959). He was co founder of the Chinese communist party in 1921. He eventually defeated the occupying Japanese and rival Kuomintang nationalist forces to create the People's Republic of China in 1949.

-Gang of four was a group of four associates including Mao Zedong's wife. They were involved in the implementing of the cultural revolution. They competed for power upon Mao's death in 1976, but were arrested and imprisoned.

-A counter-revolutionary is any person who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after the beginning of a revolution, in order to partially or fully reverse or overturn it.