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Harvard battle is Trump’s ‘Mao moment’: lessons from China’s state-sanctioned university crackdown

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par Félix Valdivieso, Chairman of IE China Observatory, IE University

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary devotion and connections to the communist party.

It was not until 1977 that the national university entrance exam (gaokao) was reinstated and…

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