Sanfann.
/ˈsanfan/ Used attributively to designate an official campaign conducted in China in 1951–2 against corruption, waste, and bureaucratism in State affairs. Cf. Wufan n.
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1956 Contemp. China 1955 I. 63 The san-fan movement directed against the ‘three evils’ of corruption, waste and bureaucracy in state institutions and enterprises.
1966 F. Schurmann Ideol. & Organization in Communist China v. 318 The regime resorted to terror to enforce controls. This took the form of the Three-Anti (Sanfan) and Five-Anti (Wufan) movements. The Sanfan campaign which started in the winter of 1951 was directed against corruption, waste, and bureaucratism.
1971 H. Trevelyan Worlds Apart viii. 98 The early campaigns were followed by the ‘San-fan’ and ‘Wu-fan’ movements, the so-called Three Antis and Five Antis, directed against corrupt Government officials and businessmen, but doubtless also against the politically unreliable.
1974 tr. W. F. Wertheim Evol. & Revol. 333 In the early fifties, the San Fan (three-anti) campaign was directed at all kinds of malpractices in the newly built state apparatus.
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