Five-Antis and Hundred Flowers Campaigns

Question 1

1. The Five-Antis Campaign was designed as an all-out assault against who?
   - What 5 things was it ‘targeting?’
2. Who were encouraged to turn on their bosses and denounce them?
3. What were organised for employees to confess/denounce others?
4. What % businessmen were found guilty of at least one of the Five Antis in Shanghai?
5. The Campaigns greatly altered the social system in China, creating an atmosphere of ____ and _________.

Answer 1

1. The bourgeoise.
   - Sabotage, tax evasion, bribery, fraud, theft of govt property.
2. Workers.
3. Group Criticism Sessions.
4. 99%.
5. Fear and repression.

Question 2

1. What date did Mao first call for criticism?
   - How effective was this?
   - What was this due to?
2. When did he next call for criticism?
   - True or false: Intellectuals grew in confidence and began to criticise the CCP harshly.
3. In the criticisms, totalitarian power was described as _____.
   - What did people want to ban?

Answer 2

1. 2nd May 1956.
   - Not very effective.
   - People’s fear of the CCP.
2. February 1957.
   - True.
3. Peril.
   - Public denunciations.

Question 3

1. What campaign did Mao bring in to put an end to the criticism?
2. What crimes were people accused of? (2)
3. What % of people in each work unit were party cadres targeted with damning as rightist?
   - What did this lead to?
4. Between _______ and ________ intellectuals were purged and either sent to Laogai, humiliated or killed.

Answer 3

1. Anti-Rightist Campaign.
2. Opposing Socialist Culture and Opposing Fundamental Policies of the State.
3. 5%.
   - Innocent people being accused just to meet targets.
4. 400,000 and 700,000.