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timelets“The school was in a sad state. Red Guards had trashed much of its equipment, which symbolized old ideas and old customs. Most of the desks and chairs had gone missing. Teachers had tried to hide cartloads of the school’s books, but these had been found and burned. Around half the teachers, some thirty instructors, had been denounced and persecuted. Two math teachers had been killed, and a history teacher had died of illness during forced labor.”
--- Eva Dou. “House of Huawei.”
That was back in 1979, right after Mao's death which resulted in the rise of Deng Xiaoping and the end of the Cultural Revolution.
upd:
“Deng held the nation’s first National Science Conference in March 1978...
In a rousing speech, Deng told the scientists that they were not part of the bourgeoisie, as they had been previously labeled, but part of the working class. “Everyone who works, whether with his hands or with his brain, is part of the working people in a socialist society,” Deng declared".
ibid.
