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Political developments
100 flowers campaign
- A genuine desire for debate
- A reaction for de-stalinsation
Initial purpose
Early Participants: Universities, writers, artists, and academics.
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Needed support from intellectuals and scientists, many returning from abroad out of patriotic duty
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Industrial recovery under 1st five year plan, Foreign prestige from fighting UN in Korea
Most came from wealthy families, making them suspect as ‘bourgeois’ or ‘capitalist enemies’ in Mao’s eyes.
Shift to represssion
Speech published, leading to the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
500,000 people persecuted.
Public self criticism, forced labour + imprisonment, political purges of intellectuals
At March 1957 Party conference, referred to intellectuals as the enemy-> goal to eliminate ideological opposition
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Purging rivals as given how brief the period before the anti-rightist campaign was launched and the attempt to freedomly criticise
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Cadres given quota of 5p of people in Danwai to be damned as rightist, -> many officials to accuse innocent people just to ensure they met their target.
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Party speech
Admitted the CCP had made mistakes, particularly its harsh treatment of intellectuals.
Claimed 800,000 deaths had occurred due to excessive force.
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Speech wasn’t published but played in Party meetings, where officials were told to encourage open criticism.
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