Anti-Rightist Campaign

GPTKB entity

Statements (44)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf political event
gptkbp:category gptkb:Maoist_China
Anti-intellectualism
1950s in China
Political repression in China
gptkbp:country gptkb:China
gptkbp:endDate 1959
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Great_Leap_Forward
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Anti-Rightist Campaign
gptkbp:impact curtailment of free speech
increased political conformity
intellectual repression
gptkbp:launched gptkb:Chinese_Communist_Party
gptkb:Mao_Zedong
gptkbp:location gptkb:People's_Republic_of_China
gptkbp:mediaCoverage gptkb:People's_Daily
gptkbp:notableVictim gptkb:Wang_Meng
gptkb:Deng_Xiaoping
gptkb:Liu_Shaoqi
gptkb:Peng_Zhen
gptkb:Zhang_Bojun
gptkb:Fang_Lizhi
gptkb:Chu_Anping
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
gptkbp:purpose suppress political dissent
eliminate rightist elements
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
gptkbp:relatedGroup intellectuals
critics of the Communist Party
rightists
gptkbp:relatedTo Chinese political movements
Maoist campaigns
political persecution in China
gptkbp:resultedIn imprisonment
forced labor
persecution
social stigma
loss of employment
gptkbp:significance major political purge in PRC history
gptkbp:startDate 1957
gptkbp:victim 550,000
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Huang_Kecheng
gptkb:Peng_Zhen
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6