| 单词 | the hundred flowers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Hundred Flowers (d) the Hundred Flowers: (a name given to) a period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when certain elements of the Chinese population were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. (See quot. 19582.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [noun] > Chinese politics > period of criticism the Hundred Flowers1958 1958 L. F. Edwards tr. E. Fauré Serpent & Tortoise xiv. 121 In the intellectual China of the Hundred Flowers, no one has the right to be a counter-revolutionary, but one has, to a certain extent, the right to be an idealist. 1958 Listener 6 Nov. 718/1 The campaign for free speech [in China] that followed the encouraging words of Mao Tsetung—‘let a hundred flowers bloom’—was evidently designed as an operation to find out what precisely were the prevailing criticisms of policy. 1959 Listener 5 Feb. 255/1 The intellectuals [in China] who blossomed with criticism during the brief Hundred Flowers Movement. 1973 Listener 2 Aug. 147/3 The humiliations which the Party had suffered during the so-called Hundred Flowers period. < as lemmas |
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