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Bombard The Headquarters – My Big-Character Poster (Chinese:炮打司令部——我的一张大字报;pinyin:Pào dǎ sīlìng bù——wǒ de yī zhāng dàzì bào) was a short document written by ChairmanMao Zedong on August 5, 1966, during the 11thplenary session of the8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party,[1] and published in theCommunist Party's official newspaperPeople's Daily a year later, on August 5, 1967.
It is commonly believed that this "big-character poster" directly targeted Chinese PresidentLiu Shaoqi and senior leaderDeng Xiaoping, who were then in charge of the Chinese government's daily affairs and who tried to cool down the mass movement which had been coming into shape in several universities inBeijing since theMay 16 Notice was issued, through which Mao officially launched theCultural Revolution.[2]
Many larger-scale mass persecutions followed the publication of this big-character poster, resulting in turmoil throughout the country and the death of thousands of "class enemies", including President Liu Shaoqi.[3]
The original text of the poster was:
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— "Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung Volume IX"[5]
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