100 Flowers

Question 1

stop contact campaign

Answer 1

jan 1955

Question 2

what is an apc

Answer 2

agricultural production cooperative

Question 3

what was the stop contract develop campaign

Answer 3

said that apcs would not be expanded for 18months in repsonse to food riots and peasant riots.

Question 4

when did 100 flowers start

Answer 4

may 1957

Question 5

when was the anti-rightist campaign

Answer 5

july 1957 - 500,000 intellectuals were branded rightist and persecuted (sent to laogai/reeducation)
launched very quickly suggesting Mao had planned this response
-stamped out new ruling class the bourgeoisie

Question 6

what happened as a result of 100 flowers

Answer 6

-rallies were held
-students created posters comparing the ccp to imperial and the gmd
-intellectuals had special issues of magazines criticising the maoist economics

Question 7

was the 100FLowers a sign of weakness? NO

Answer 7

-ended as a supreme show of his power over the population
-the removal of critics paved the way for the great leap forward

Question 8

was 100Flowers a sign of weakness YES

Answer 8

-zhou enlai was made to make a self-criticism = shows the highest rankers in the CCP werent actually aligned with Mao
-mao accused of ‘disunity, corruption, and inefficiency’ - everything the ccp promised to eradicate from the gmd govt

Question 9

why 100 flowers

Answer 9

1) The targets of the First Five Year Plan were achieved a year early, however there was growing peasant
resistance and problems in collectivising agriculture. Mao wanted to speed up economic change, but saw
opposition in the Party. Mao looked to support from outside the party.
2) Mao feared the growing bureaucracy within the CCP, and believed that the Party was becoming alienated
from the people. He thought criticism would ‘rectify’ this.
3) Khrushchev’s speech in 1956 shook the communist world and had significant impact on CCP politics.

Question 10

whenw as 100 flowers

Answer 10

may 1956