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Anti-Rightist Campaign
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- A Critique of Soviet Economics
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- Oppose Book Worship
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
- Reply to Li Shuyi
- Hunan Report
- Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
- The Shian Kian Weekly Review
- Poetry
The Anti-Rightist Campaign (simplified Chinese: 反右运动; traditional Chinese: 反右運動; pinyin: Fǎnyòu Yùndòng) in the People's Republic of China (PRC), which lasted from 1957 to roughly 1959, was a political campaign to purge alleged "Rightists" within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country as a whole. The campaign was launched by Chairman Mao Zedong following the Hundred Flowers Campaign. Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen also played important roles. The Anti-Rightist Campaign consolidated the PRC's status as a one-party state.
The definition of rightists was not always consistent, often including critics to the left of the government, but officially referred to those intellectuals who appeared to favor capitalism, or were against one-party rule as well as forcible, state-run collectivization. According to China's official statistics published during the "Boluan Fanzheng" period, the campaign resulted in the political persecution of at least 550,000 people. Some researchers believe that the actual number of those persecuted is between 1 and 2 million or even higher. Deng Xiaoping admitted that there were mistakes during the Anti-Rightist Campaign, and most victims received rehabilitation after 1959.