Mao contended that
Deng Xiaoping, who was a lifelong CCP member and was committed to the party's approach since he was a young boy, Later in 1966, Mao attacked Deng and
Liu Shaoqi again, which made Deng lose his post. In mid-1975, with the blessing of an absent Mao who was tending to personal ailments, Deng was granted complete leadership and power in China and initiated many reforms that attempted to resolve the mistakes he saw with the cultural revolution. These reforms have since been labelled as a process of
de-Maoification as he adjusted CCP policy instated previously by Mao which included changes to education, personnel, economics, science and technology in his
Four Modernizations policy. Deng's reforms to educational policy limited this experience and instead focused on classroom education which Mao cited was one that made Deng a capitalist roader. Upon
the death of Zhou Enlai, a popular Chinese politician, and public dissident to Deng's reforms, Mao backpedaled on his appointment and launched the
Criticise Deng Xiaoping campaign == Usage in academic scholarship outside of China ==