Taoyuan Experience (), or Peach Garden Experience, refers to the summary of the

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led by

Wang Guangmei Wang Guangmei (; 26 September 1921 – 13 October 2006) was a Chinese politician, philanthropist and the wife of Liu Shaoqi, who served as the President of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968. Life Early years Wang Guangmei was b ...

from November 1963 to April 1964 in the Taoyuan Production Brigade of Luwangzhuang Commune,

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. The Experience was once recognized by the

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and popularized nationwide. Yet, during the

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, it was widely blamed as an example of "

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". The representative work of the Taoyuan Experience is Wang Guangmei's report entitled ''General Summary of One Brigade's Experience in the Socialist Education Movement ''.

Main content

The main content of the Taoyuan Experience is that after the socialist education working teams entered the countryside, firstly, they should engage in taking roots and establishing ties, visiting the poor, and gradually organize the class ranks from small to large; then carry out back-to-back denunciation struggles and " Four Cleanups"; then conduct class education in a concentrated and systematic manner and undertook struggles against the enemy; and finally engage in organization building.

Evaluation

There is an opinion that the Taoyuan Experience is a

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of the Cultural Revolution in some form, and that it provides some experience for the Cultural Revolution at least in terms of method, form and ideology.

References

{{Reflist Political movements in China 1963 in China Liu Shaoqi History of Hebei Politics of Qinhuangdao