Staging History | Icons, Symbols and Official Imagery

Class Enemies and Bad Elements

The Old Regime and its allies - KMT, capitalists (banker, factory owner), landlords

Foreign imperialists - Uncle Sam & the Americans, the "Banker" (top hat, suit and cigar - taken from Soviet socialist imagery)

Political opponents - Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Qing & the 'Gang of Four' Soviet Revisionists: Kruschev, Breshnev, Kosygin

Discuss demonization and dehumanization. Peoples Daily editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" (June 1, 1966. Link to pre-revolutionary , traditional (Buddhist?) and folklore images (cow monsters and snake demons, white bone demon, monkey king, snakes, put enemies in the "cow shed."