Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Mao’s editorial against Wenhui Bao (1957)
On the Mao’s China map as “Wenhui Bao”
1 Jul 1957 — Mao himself writes a People’s Daily editorial attacking Shanghai’s Wenhui Bao for its “bourgeois orientation” in printing criticism during the Hundred Flowers. Over the following months, editors, writers, teachers and business people who had spoken out in Shanghai are named as rightists.
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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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