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Four Olds (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's article on the campaign against the "Four Olds", the Cultural Revolution era Chinese Communist Party campaign targeting old customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas. It is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, matching this atlas's established convention for a Wikipedia citation: reliable for the campaign's basic definition and chronology, not a substitute for a dedicated scholarly history of the Cultural Revolution's effect on religious practice specifically.

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Reliability Tier
3
Tier three, general reference encyclopedia entry, matching this database's established convention for Wikipedia citations.
Notes
A general crowd-edited reference article rather than a peer-reviewed source. Tier 3 on the three-tier scale used across this atlas's source register (1 scholarly or peer-reviewed, 2 reputable secondary, 3 general reference). Used here specifically for the 18 August 1966 Tiananmen rally date at which Mao Zedong reviewed the Red Guards and endorsed the Destroy the Four Olds campaign, a date well corroborated in the wider secondary literature on the Cultural Revolution.
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Author
Wikipedia contributors
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Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds
Source Type
reference article
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)

This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Religious Events, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.

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11

Religious Events

General References

1

Religious Events

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