Red Chinese Battle Plan
| Red Chinese Battle Plan | |
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| Produced by | United States Department of Defense |
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Running time | 28 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Red Chinese Battle Planis a 28-minute black-and-whitepropagandashortproduced by theUnited States Department of Defensein 1967. Presented as adocumentary filmonChinese historyto military servicemen, the propaganda short describes thePeople's Republic of Chinaas plotting to "conquer and enslave" the world.[1]
Overview
[edit]Produced five years before the beginning of theUnited States'rapprochement with Mao Zedongin 1972,Red Chinese Battle Planwas made during theVietnam Warunder theLyndon Johnsonadministration. Despite the wideningrift between the China and the Soviet Union,both powers supported theVietnamese communistsduring theIndochinaconflict, while theWestern Bloccultivated a myth of Chinese expansionism throughout the decade.
The film traces thepolitical philosophyofMao Zedongto the time of the building of theGreat Wall,a period described in the film as an era of "slave labor and thought control."[1]The film's anonymous narrator accuses the People's Republic of China of trying to "conquer and enslave" the planet.[1][2]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^abcHendershot 2003,p. 136
- ^Wasserstrom 2010,p. 117
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Hendershot, Cynthia (2003).Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America.McFarland.ISBN978-0-7864-1440-6.RetrievedApril 19,2021.
- Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (2010).China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-539447-4.RetrievedApril 19,2021.
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