Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Cultural Revolution's changes Main Article: Cultural Revolution After officially supporting Mao Zedong in his Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957, designed to bolster his power base within the party apparatus, Deng became General Secretarty of the Communist Party of China and ran the country's daily affairs with then State President Liu Shaoqi. Mao's increasingly bad reputation from the Great Leap Forward had caused Deng and Liu to rise to power. Liu & Deng's plan was to eventually make Mao a figurehead under their jurisdiction. Economic Reform had begun while Liu & Deng were in actual power, this had caused their prestige among the party apparatus and the national populace. At this point in time, Mao himself had grown apprehensive, afraid of being ousted from power. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.