HUNDRED FLOWERS


Meaning of HUNDRED FLOWERS in English

the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."

[ trans. of Chin baihua ( qífàng ) lit., (let bloom) a hundred flowers ]

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