Book contents
- A Hundred Flowers
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- A Hundred Flowers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Flower Power
- Introduction: Buds
- Flowers
- Weeds
- Weather
- Seeds
- 10What Gets Left Behind: History, Memory, and Image
- 11Who Gets Left Behind: Wu Mi and the Split Life of a Poet
- Conclusion: Campaign, Literary, and Historical Time
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion: Campaign, Literary, and Historical Time
from Seeds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2025
Book contents
- A Hundred Flowers
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- A Hundred Flowers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Flower Power
- Introduction: Buds
- Flowers
- Weeds
- Weather
- Seeds
- 10What Gets Left Behind: History, Memory, and Image
- 11Who Gets Left Behind: Wu Mi and the Split Life of a Poet
- Conclusion: Campaign, Literary, and Historical Time
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
How should we measure the time of a Maoist campaign? What is the legacy for its authors and for China today? This concluding chapter reviews the major themes of the book. It also explores the tensions between linear and circular conceptions of time, how they shaped the Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist campaigns, and what this watershed period in modern Chinese history can tell us about the agency of the writer in contemporary China and the role of literary circulation in the perpetual reimagining and rewriting of the Chinese state.
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- A Hundred FlowersHow Literature Shaped Maoism, pp. 222 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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