Word: antirightist
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Though ungrammatical, the better verb could well be, as Zhang's title implies, "to die." Each period of chaos, from the antirightist movement of the '50s to the Great Cultural Revolution of the '60s and '70s, required that the Chinese get used to living as though they were dead. Recalling tenures at labor camps, Zhang's schizophrenic main character says, "Death became second nature to him, but he lacked the strength or tenacity to die. It was at times like this that I had to help...
...Novelist Wang fell victim to Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "antirightist" cam- paign. On the basis of one short story published during the surge of creativity that followed the preceding Hundred Flowers movement, Wang was accused of "destructive, anti-party" sentiments...
...London recorded a number of legal outrages A teacher named Ho Chun-shu, for example, was said to have been executed at the beginning of 1978 for writing and distributing a "counterrevolutionary pamphlet." Last June, however, China released about 110,000 people who had been jailed since Mao's "antirightist" crack down...
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