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  • He is the son of the admired poet Ai Qing, a communist who had been with Mao in Yan'an in the years before the 1949 revolution, but fell foul of the party during the anti-rightist movement of the late 1950s and was declared an enemy of the people.

    Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist 2011

  • There is similar dispatch in discussing the "anti-rightist campaign" of 1957, when more than a half-million Chinese were designated intellectuals and persecuted.

    Surviving Mao, Revamping a Nation 2011

  • He's gone almost 100% anti-leftist Portlander and anti-rightist Portlander and definitely pissed off a ton of Libertarians (which I'm sure he already did).

    Joe Weston: Adams recall may succeed (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The repression of the anti-revolutionary and anti-rightist factions in mid 1950s fully established the CCP's control over all media and publications.

    Global Voices in English » China: The democracy movement since 1989 2009

  • The data produced focused on productivity, relations of production, class structure, religions, and customs. 56 However, this survey was disrupted by the 1957 "anti-rightist movement," for which Fei Xiaotong was summoned back to Beijing and criticized.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • The repression of the anti-revolutionary and anti-rightist factions in mid 1950s fully established the CCP's control over all media and publications.

    China: The democracy movement since 1989 2009

  • The response was so forceful that Mao and the CCP immediately began an “anti-rightist” campaign to punish those who had spoken out.

    1957, May 1-June 7 2001

  • However, after 1949, from the anti-rightist campaign to the Cultural Revolution, from the execution of Lin Zhao to the cutting of the throat of Zhang Zhixin, the freedom of expression was lost in the Maoist era and the country fell into a deathly silence, like 10,000 horses standing mute.

    Spero News 2010

  • The anti-rightist campaign led to the unjust designation of more than 500,000 rightists; the Great Leap Forward created the unnatural deaths of over 100,000 people; the Cultural Revolution created a great catastrophe.

    Spero News 2010

  • However, after 1949, from the anti-rightist campaign to the Cultural Revolution, from the execution of Lin Zhao to the cutting of the throat of Zhang Zhixin, the freedom of expression was lost in the Maoist era and the country fell into a deathly silence, like 10,000 horses standing mute.

    Spero News 2010

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