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The Anti-Rightist Campaign (simplified Chinese: 反右运动; traditional Chinese: 反右運動; pinyin: Fǎnyòu Yùndòng) in the People's Republic of China, which lasted from 1957 to roughly 1959, was a political campaign to purge alleged "Rightists" within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country as a whole.
The Hundred Flowers gave way to a new purge called the Anti-Rightist movement, initiated in the summer of 1957. Between 300,000 and 550,000 individuals were identified as Rightists, most of them intellectuals, academics, writers and artists.
In April 1957, the Communist government briefly allowed public discussion of controversial issues and criticism of the government when Mao put forward the idea of "letting a hundred flowers bloom" in the arts and "a hundred schools of thought contend" in the sciences.
The Archive allows the public to search, learn, and explore a collection of over 40,000 data points, and growing, of "Rightist" victims and history from the 1957-1959 "Rightist" Movement in China.
Anti-Rightest Movement in China, following Mao’s Hundred Flowers Campaign in 1957. Photo: Wikipedia. In February 1957, Chairman Mao Zedong rose to speak to a packed session of China’s...
1 Μαΐ 2018 · Faced with public excoriation and professional ruin, many committed suicide. With the Anti-Rightist Campaign, Mao established his threshold for ‘acceptable’ criticism, and all it cost him was a whole generation of intellectuals, experts, and scientists purged from society.
Mao launched a counter Anti-Rightist Campaign, which labelled critics as enemies and enforced harsh punishments such as re-education on them. Eventually, 750,000 CCP members were sentenced to receive punishments.
