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Chronicle of Western Liaoning, A

Northeast Past: How did the Communist Party Rehabilitate Rightist Intellectuals?

In 1959, in the desolate Lingyuan area in the western part of Liaoning Province, a group of intellectual rightists from the Shenyang University arrived. There, they were to labor and be reformed alongside criminal prisoners in the prison, while digging mines to build railroads. How did the Communist Party reform the intellectuals? What kind of encounters did these rightist intellectuals go through? Hu Jie's camera restores this history.
Title
Chronicle of Western Liaoning, A
Description
In 1959, in the desolate Lingyuan area in the western part of Liaoning Province, a group of intellectual rightists from the Shenyang University arrived. There, they were to labor and be reformed alongside criminal prisoners in the prison, while digging mines to build railroads. How did the Communist Party reform the intellectuals? What kind of encounters did these rightist intellectuals go through? Hu Jie's camera restores this history.
Release Date
2017
Format
Film and Video
Era
Maoist Era (1949-1978)
The Anti-Rightist Campaign Period (1957-1958)
Creator
Hu Jie
Themes
Intellectuals

Oral and Personal Accounts

History of the Chinese Communist Party

Labor

The Anti-Rightist Campaign

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