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Are Things Getting Better in China? - 1949 to 1985 - Page 3
A College Paper by Paul Noll (1990) C. Mao Zedong's Mass Campaigns |
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| Campaign | Target of Attack |
| New Marriage Law, 1950 | Traditional family rules |
| Land Reform, 1950 | Landlords and clan authority |
| Anti-America, Aid-Korea, 1950 | Public goodwill toward America, especially among Chinese Intellectuals |
| Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries, 1950 | Urban Chinese suspected of having close ties with the Nationalist Party of former American Agencies in China |
| Three-Anti or "Three-Evils" (corruption, waste, and bureaucratism), 1951 | Corrupt Communist cadres and urban businessmen |
| Five-Anti or "Five-Evils" (bribery, tax evasion, theft of state intelligence, cheating on state contracts, and theft of state property), 1951 | Urban Businessmen |
| Thought Reform of Intellectuals, 1951 | Intellectuals, mostly liberal arts and social science faculty in major universities |
| Democratic Reform, 1952 | Old labor unions |
| Religious Reform, 1952 | Established Christian religion in China |
| The Hundreds Flower Movement, 1957 | Intellectuals, writers, and artists |
| The Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1960 | Scientific and academic learning |
| The People's Commune Movement, 1958 to 1960 | The individual family farms |
| The Great Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 1976 | Enemies of the Party |