Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-) (CD-ROM)

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Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-) (CD-ROM), edited by the Editorial Board of the Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign CD-ROM Database. Hong Kong: Universities Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. US$1,300.

This wonderful new Database compiled by Song Yongyi and his collaborating editors illuminates one of the most important events of PRC history, the 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign, in a number of important respects - the broad trajectory of the struggle between intellectual repression and free expression, a deeper understanding of specific earlier major political conflicts informing the events of 1957, the behavior of key Party leaders and …