LOS ANGELES — In 1957, Mao Zedong launched the Hundred Flowers Campaign. It was to be a glorious liberalization, an flourishing of the arts, intellectualism and culture. A few weeks later, threatened ...
Mao at the 1956 Supreme State Conference, when he uttered his phrase about the hundred flowers that launched the campaign. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons “Letting a hundred flowers bloom ...