Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Mao’s editorial against Wenhui Bao (1957)
On the Mao’s China map as “Wenhui Bao”
1 Jul 1957 — A People’s Daily editorial, written by Mao himself, attacks Shanghai’s Wenhui Bao for its “bourgeois orientation” in printing criticism during the Hundred Flowers. Editors, writers, teachers and business people who had spoken out in Shanghai are named as rightists in the months that follow.
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- Hundred Flowers Campaign (chapter 5 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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