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Hundred Flowers Movement (view source)
Revision as of 04:47, December 12, 2007
, 04:47, December 12, 2007New page: The '''Hundred Flowers Movement''' was a mass campaign in China launched by Mao Zedong in 1956, ostensibly intended to elicit opinions from the common people about the Chinese Comm...
The '''Hundred Flowers Movement''' was a mass campaign in [[China]] launched by [[Mao Zedong]] in 1956, ostensibly intended to elicit opinions from the common people about the Chinese Communist Party's administration of China, although the true reason for the campaign's existence is debatable. Mao utilized his control of the Chinese [[media]] to tell the Chinese people "let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend". This was a request for frank commentary regarding the actions of the Communist Party seven years into the party's control of the People's Republic of China.
==Results and Aftermath==
The Hundred Flowers Movement brought forth many opinions - and not all were positive. Waves of criticism reached the ears of Mao. Upset, he launched the [[Anti-Rightist Campaign]] a year later, in 1957, in which hundreds of thousands of people were branded "Rightists", and thus enemies of the Communist Party. Many were sent to labor camps, and some people remained there over three decades. Some have argued that the Hundred Flowers Movement was a political trap to expose "dissidents" and thus intended only as a precursor to the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
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==Results and Aftermath==
The Hundred Flowers Movement brought forth many opinions - and not all were positive. Waves of criticism reached the ears of Mao. Upset, he launched the [[Anti-Rightist Campaign]] a year later, in 1957, in which hundreds of thousands of people were branded "Rightists", and thus enemies of the Communist Party. Many were sent to labor camps, and some people remained there over three decades. Some have argued that the Hundred Flowers Movement was a political trap to expose "dissidents" and thus intended only as a precursor to the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
[[Category:China]]