During The Cultural Revolution
Jian was heavily criticized during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution. During the early 1960s, Jian began to advocate historical accounts that utilized a combination of the methodology of class analysis with that of historicism. For this, Mao Zedong criticized Jian at the end of 1965. Qi Benyu, a prominent Party figure of the time period, also criticized Jian on four counts: opposing the theory of class struggle, denigrating peasant revolutions, praising emperors and kings, and applauding conciliatory policies. Jian also suffered from severe torture and lynch during that time, and these drove Jian to commit suicide. He, along with his wife, took an overdose of sleeping pills and died on December 18, 1968.
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