CHINA(100 Flowers Campaign And After Math

Question 1

What year was the hundred flowers campaign

Answer 1

1957, just after the first five year plan

Question 2

What happened in the congress of 1956

Answer 2

Mao called for criticism
Due to the intense fear no one said a word

Question 3

What happened in Feb 1957 in the major speech

Answer 3

Mao called again for criticism
Most kept quiet so he summoned the the editor of the people’s daily to demand news coverage of debate

Question 4

What happened due to the newspaper demanding on response

Answer 4

Trickled of criticism which turned into a flood

Question 5

What were some of the criticisms

Answer 5

Denunciation of policies and even individual leaders

Question 6

What did Mao do

Answer 6

A halt to the debate was announced
He rounded up the critics and branded them as rightists whose intention was to “destroy the revolution”

Question 7

What happened to the rightists

Answer 7

Half a million sent to the “re educations camps”

Question 8

What were the conditions of these re educations camps

Answer 8

Brutal, involving constant fear of violence
Forms of torture such as sleep deprivation
Hard labour and a very poor diet
Many disappeared without trace from these camps