Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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The Historical Record for June 8, 2009: The Anti-Rightist Movement

June 8th, 2009 ·

This date in 1957 marked the beginning of the Anti-Rightist Movement, a crusade  launched by the party leadership in the wake of Mao’s rather impetuous call to “Let 100 flowers bloom.”

Like a lot of 20th century Chinese history, it’s a tragicomic tale and the subject of one of my favorite earlier posts, “Mao and the Marriage Counselor.”  Check it out.

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