In that framework how do you explain the cultural revolution, and the inversion of power that resulted from that? Younger red guards denouncing their elders, t

In that framework how do you explain the cultural revolution, and the inversion of power that resulted from that? Younger red guards denouncing their elders, the attempt to get rid of the four 'olds' doesn't seem like a particularly conservative or Confucian agenda to me. If it were impossible for this kind of thought to take root in China, I doubt that this movement could have gotten off the ground. The right time to judge whether the Chinese people really value social harmony more than the west does is when economic growth stalls or even reverses for a decade or so.