In 1998, retired Xinhua News Agency journalist Dai Huang (now 79) published a book about his life - including the 21 years he spent in labor camps after he was labeled a rightist in 1957 during the anti-rightist campaign. His... ...full story at RConversation
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Torture Outside the Olympic Village: A Guide to China Labor Camps »
YouTube video The guide, entitled 「Torture Outside the Olympic Village: A Guide to China』s Labor Camps,」 is available online at
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) presents a guide to labor camps and detention facilities just a s... |
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The Historical Record for June 8, 2009: The Anti-Rightist Movement » Granite Studio This date in 1957 marked the beginning of the Anti-Rightist Movement, a crusade launched by the party leadership in the wake of Mao’s rather impetuous call to “Let 100 flowers bloom.” Like a lot of 20th century Chinese history... |
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Anti-Rightist Movement: Photos » Letters from China In 1957, National Day marchers brandished a sign that said Struggle against the Rightists resolutely. Zhang Bojun, the then transport minister, was denounced by his colleagues during the Anti-Rightist Movement. Many intellectuals were pidou, or criticised... |
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"Rightists": Right the Wrong Now » Letters from China Intellectuals and officials who were denounced as Rightists in 1957 write an open letter to the Party and demand:-(In translation)1. Lift the restrictions on freedom of speech. Let people reflect the history of Anti-Rightist Movement. Dig out the root... |
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The Killing Field » ESWN Translation of an excerpt from the book A Narrow Escape from Death: My Journey as a 'Rightist' by Dai Huang. |
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Woman of Shanghai and the marketing of Chinese literature in translation » Danwei Woman From Shanghai, by Yang Xianhui, translated by Wen Huang Yang Xianhui's Chronicle of Jiabiangou (夹边沟纪事), a book of stories of a rightist camp in Gansu Province during the 1950s, was recently translated by Wen Huang and published under... |