>>2804903Foot binding was outlawed in China by the Nationalists long before Mao took power. While the last lotus shoes were produced in 1999, they were made for elderly women whose feet were already bound in the early 20th century. Red Guards in 1966 weren't fighting foot binding; there was no active foot binding to stop.
Arranged marriage was outlawed in 1950, the moment the Communists took power. If you want to claim it was still a massive secret issue requiring a decade of civil violence to fix, I'd like to see sources. But more importantly, if the Cultural Revolution was a success at "beating out the feudal mindset", how do you explain the reaction to the One-Child Policy? That policy started
after the Cultural Revolution, yet the the preference for male heirs resulted in sex-selective abortion and infant femicide. It seems the Cultural Revolution didn't actually fix patriarchal mindsets at all.
>And no im referring to people in the US who where chattel slaves or plantation slaves in which the owners just never bothered to tell them slavery was over - it happened a lot.At this point I'm sure you're referring to peonage (illegal debt bondage) and sharecropper exploitation. The idea that "no one informed them" they were free is a historically bizarre interpretation. They weren't feral children chained in a basement, entirely ignorant of the outside world (not even antebellum slaves were like that). Victims of peonage were held captive by violence, debt, and corrupt local sheriffs with guns,
not by a lack of news.
And just like how they weren't held back by "a lack of news", Chinese peasants living in collectivized communes didn't need teenagers from the cities to "spread the news" that the landlords were finally gone. Some of them had literally killed their own landlords during the Land Reform Movement, all of them had participated in the Great Leap Forward where the land was collectivized.