China's Insane Succession Crisis

Uncover your history today with MyHeritage. Get 14 days free with our link! https://bit.ly/Spectacles_MH Mao died. China got a little crazy. — Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spectaclesmedia Watch this video on Nebula, ad-free and uncensored: https://nebula.tv/videos/spectacles-china-in-1976-was-insane Hang out on our Discord: https://discord.gg/VWcpybH683 Check out our script: https://www.spectacles.news/china-in-1976-was-insane/ For citations, turn on CC. Sources below ↓ — About us: Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world. — SOURCES A. James Palmer, Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao’s China (Basic Books: 2012) B. Frank Dikotter, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower (Bloomsbury, 2022). C. Zhang Chunqiao, “On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie,” in Red Flag, 1975. D. Andrew Walder, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (Harvard University Press, 2015). E. Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press, 2013. — 00:00 INTRO 02:13 THE PROTEST 10:11 THE DEATH 13:10 THE TRIUMPH 21:17 THOUGHTS — Thanks to the following contributions and creators: Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images Lowpoly Human Rigged by IcySugar on Blendswap: https://blendswap.com/blend/21420 — First track by Harry Clennon All others from Epidemic Sounds: Melting Glass by Eden Avery (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/2fqOXWpHab/) Amalthea by Van Saldano (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/69yTqaxEWQ/) Decision Through Vision by Max Anson (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/AoAFT1ZSmP/) Fatal Flaws by Howard Harper Barnes (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ONEy4eDwZG/) Hairpin Loop by Martin Moses (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/bPSdR7yAKM/) Light-Footed by Bonnie Grace (http://epidemicsound.com/track/13x4VTrByx/) Like Moths to a Flame (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/lLCsKqIAFl/) Divisive Alliance by Jon Björk (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/QgftTsL1p3/) Fractal Patterns by Bonnie Grace (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/SuFlORszni/) Misguided Path by Bonnie Grace (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/yIboE3Njz0/) Surveillance Camera by Alan Carlson-Green (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/hh2BiAooZL/) In the Aftermath by Michael Rothery (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/DjHwv0BjhI/) In Disguise by Jon Björk (https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/zRXh0R70GP/)