Activity 1 - What was the Hundred Flowers?

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Activity Tasks

1. Think, Pair, Share - What do you recall of the Hundred Flowers Campaign? Identify your previous learning on this topic, before discussing with a partner.
2. Discuss - Rectification campaign, mass movement, or a vehicle for consolidating power? In your opinion, which label best describes the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
3. Review - Download, read, and make notes from the Lesson Presentation on how the Hundred Flowers Campaign and Anti-Rightist Movement developed.

Activity 2 - What does the campaign reveal?

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Activity Tasks

1. Examine - In pairs, examine the six sources on this worksheet.
2. Summarise - For each source, summarise what you think is the main criticism(s) the author is trying to convey.
3. Evaluate - Then consider what each source reveals to you as a historian about conditions in China at the time. 
4. Discuss - What seems to be the most significant issue(s) for: a) the CPC; b) for the people?

Activity 3 - What were Mao's motives?

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Activity Tasks

1. List - Review your notes about the Hundred Flowers Campaign. Make a list of the main causes and motives that may have prompted Mao to launch the campaign.
   
2. Rank - Rank the motives for the campaign from most important to least important. To what extent was the campaign triggered by the implications of Khruschev’s ‘secret speech’ in the USSR?
   
3. Analysis - Using your own knowledge and notes taken so far this lesson, review the four sources on this worksheet and complete the following source analysis questions:
   
   1. According to Source A, what are the aims of the Hundred Flowers Campaign? (3 marks).
      
   2. What message is conveyed by Source B? (2 marks).
      
   3. With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the values and limitations of Source A for historians studying Mao’s motives for the Hundred Flowers Campaign (4 marks).
      
   4. Compare and contrast what Sources A and C reveal about the motives of the Hundred Flowers Campaign (6 marks).
      
   5. Using the sources and your own knowledge, discuss the reasons why Mao Zedong launched the Hundred Flowers Campaign (9 marks).​

Activity 4 - Was the campaign a trap?

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Activity Tasks

1. Review - Familiarise yourself with the two historical perspectives on Slide 24 of the Lesson Presentation about the nature of the Hundred Flowers/Anti-Rightist Campaign. Try and locate a quotation from the sources for each of these perspectives.
2. Connect - For each historical perspective, consider what historical examples and events each perspective might refer to to substantiate their arguments. 
3. Discuss - Which historical viewpoint has the more plausible perspective about the Hundred Flowers Campaign? 
   
4. Debate - What does the Hundred Flowers Campaign reveal about the nature of Mao’s regime? Do you agree or disagree with the points made on Slide 26 of the Lesson Presentation?

Further Reading

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OBLIGATORY READING

1. Lynch, M. (2016). Access to History: China 1839-1997, pp. 160-163

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Spence, J.D. (1990). The Search for Modern China, pp. 563-573

SUPPLEMENTAL READING

1. Dikotter, F. (2013). The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957, Chapter 14
2. SCMP. (2017). Echoes of 1950s persecution in China's crackdown on liberal voices

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