A Hundred Flowers Terms

The Autumn Moon Festival, celebrated in China, Japan, and other countries throughout East and Southeast Asia, marks the first full moon after the autumnal equinox. It is the second-most important Chinese holiday, after the New… read analysis of Autumn Moon Festival

The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921, seized control of the government at the end of a civil war in 1949. Led by Chairman Mao Zedong until his death in 1977, the Chinese Communist Party… read analysis of Chinese Communist Party

In early 1957, the Chinese Communist Party announced a new initiative with a poem that said, “Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought content.” It was an appeal to the Chinese… read analysis of Hundred Flowers Campaign