Hundred Flowers
- 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.”
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Origin of Hundred Flowers
translation of Chinese bǎihuā (qífàng) literally, (let bloom) a hundred flowers
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