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Anti-Rightist Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (255 words) |
 | The campaigns were instigated by then Chairman Mao Zedong. |
| The Anti-Rightist Movement was a reaction against the Hundred Flowers Campaign, which had promoted pluralism of expression and criticism of the government. |
| It is not clear whether the Hundred Flowers Campaign was a deliberate tactic to smoke out "rightists", or whether Mao simply decided that it had gone too far. |
| Hundred Flowers Campaign: Information From Answers.com (1083 words) |
| The Hundred Flowers Campaign (百花运动, bǎi huā yùndòng) period refers to a brief interlude in the People's Republic of China from 1956 to 1957 during which the Communist Party authorities permitted or encouraged a variety of views and solutions. |
| After the founding of the PRC in 1949, what would later be known as the Hundred Flowers Movement was first a small campaign aimed solely at local bureaucracies for non-communist-affiliated officials to speak out about the policies and the existing problems within the central bureaucracy. |
| The after-effects of the campaign was only a part of the silencing of intellectuals that would continue for another decade or so. |
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