The Chinese Intelligentsia during the Hundred Flowers and Anti-rightist

The Chinese clerisy during the century Flowers and Anti-rightist MovementAfter the coming to power of the CCP and the formation of the stacks Republic of mainland China, thorough and drastic changes began to take place in China. A country which had been founded on a mixture of Confucianism and a very spiritual livingstyle, with ancestor worship and even praying to the god of a extra object, which had went by means of various revolutions and changings of the guard, began to follow the influence of a Red Giant. The theories of collectivism which were developed through a collaboration of Marx and Engels began to penetrate China through the Soviet influence. The sweeping changes that were introduced by Mao Zedong and his ships company would influence China in every aspect, and attempt to eradicate the old expressions, which were consider to be corrupted and no longer represented what was right for the country as a whole. The CCP changed the way the government was set up, change d the way foreign dealings were handled, re-evaluated the economic policies of the country, and, possibly more drastically, attempted, arguably successfully, to control and change the way people thought. The anti rightist movements of the 50s and 60s attempted to do just that. These movements followed on the heels of what was known as the Hundred Flowers. The Hundred Flowers slogan was Let a hundred Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend. The movement which had started in the spring of 1956 was a movement that was began by the party to do several(prenominal) things. The main theme behind the movement was to welcome criticism of the party by the intellectuals of the country, and was considered a good way for the party to prove that it cared or so the people, was interested, and listening to what they had to say. According to TeiwesLu (Ting-i) argued the victory of socialist transformation and a fundamental change in the political outlook of intellectuals created condit ions for the Hundred Flowers. He held that free discussion and independent thinking were necessary to avoid faculty member stagnation and declared the imposition of narrow, doctrinaire restrictions on intellectual life the bitter enemy of true Marxism Leninism. (219)Mao was under the impression that socialism was so perfect that intellectual criticism would not be hurt, however benefit the attitudes in the country. This was a major chan... ... to keep their opinions to themselves. It would take days for them to find their voice again. Not, only did this movement silence millions, but it was in like manner the moment for many Chinese, when the cracks in the party started to show. The man who had been revered as a god, had made a mistake, and people started to question themselves and their beliefs. Jung Changs sustain was one of these individuals who began to question the Communist party and its methods, however not openly. Her keep up however would not question it. Their relat ionship is a microcosm of the country. The people who byword the fissures forming were afraid(p) to say anything, but the blind followers of the party where afraid to listen One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no response from him, she said bitterly, You are a good Communist, but a rotten husband My father nodded. He said he knew. (Chang, 219) whole shebang CitedChang, Jung. Wild Swans Three Daughters of China. New York First Anchor Books, 1992.Fu-Sheng, Mu. The Wilting of the Hundred Flowers. New York Frederick A. Praeger, Inc, 1963.Teiwes, Frederick. Politics and Purges in China. New York M.E. Sharpe, 1979.