Talk:Stinking Old Ninth

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The 3rd reference may be biased in favor of Mao. --97.102.143.178 (talk) 03:59, 22 November 2020 (UTC) HTML:

The Yuan dynasty believed that Confucian scholars did not bring productivity to society and even hindered the development of the economy, so it was classified as the ninth social class at that time. In the 1960s and 1970s, the term "Stinking Old Ninth" was often used as a synonym for intellectuals, and it expressed society's disgust at the time. Intellectuals were distrusted during the revolution and pushed to undergo self-transformation.