China’s anti-tightist campaign between 1957 and 1958 saw some 500,000 people sent to the countryside for expressing criticism of the Communist Party. Photo: Handout
China’s anti-tightist campaign between 1957 and 1958 saw some 500,000 people sent to the countryside for expressing criticism of the Communist Party. Photo: Handout
Human rights in China
China /  Politics

Echoes of 1950s persecution in China’s crackdown on liberal voices

With the 60th anniversary of the Anti-Rightist Movement on June 8, some scholars liken Beijing’s tightening of ideological control to those times

Eva Li

Updated: 11:17pm, 8 Jun, 2017

Why you can trust SCMP
China’s anti-tightist campaign between 1957 and 1958 saw some 500,000 people sent to the countryside for expressing criticism of the Communist Party. Photo: Handout
China’s anti-tightist campaign between 1957 and 1958 saw some 500,000 people sent to the countryside for expressing criticism of the Communist Party. Photo: Handout
READ FULL ARTICLE