The '''Hundred Flowers Movement''' was a mass campaign in [[China]] launched by [[Mao Zedong]] in 1956, ostensibly intending 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" - a saying originally attributed to [[Confucius]]. 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.
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The '''Hundred Flowers Movement''' was a [[mass campaign]] in [[China]] launched by [[Mao Zedong]] in 1956, ostensibly intending 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" - a saying originally attributed to [[Confucius]]. 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.