Wufann.
/ˈwuːfan/ Used attributively to designate an official campaign launched in China in 1952 against bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, skimping on work and cheating on materials, and theft of state economic information.
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1956 Contemp. China 1955 I. 63 The wu-fan movement against the ‘five vices’ in the private sector: bribing, tax evasion, theft of government property, cheating on government contracts, and stealing economic information from government sources for private speculation.
1966 D. Wilson Quarter of Mankind iii. 35 Within a few months the second campaign followed, this time the wufan or ‘five-antis’ movement to root out bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, theft of state economic secrets and embezzlement in carrying out state contracts.
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.
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