The Chinese Intelligentsia during the Hundred Flowers and Anti-rightist Movement

Hundreds of flowers bloomed, Chinese intellectuals in anti-right wing movement, the Communist Party held power, and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, China began a radical and complete revolution. Motherlands based on Confucianism and spiritual lifestyles, worship of their ancestors, and even prayers for certain things to God began to be influenced by the country, underwent a variety of revolutionary and parental change. Red giant.

Mao Zedong began to notice the movement is uncontrollable, and in July he canceled it. He announced that "fragrant flowers" must be distinguished from "toxic weeds"; criticism will no longer be tolerated. In the anti-rights movement of 1957, critics and critics were rounded up by hundreds of thousands of people, executed and retrained through childbirth. Mao Zedong later said that the "hundred flower movement" is sucking snakes from their nests. The treatment by the government by China's first modern poet Aiko is typical. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1941. After the political party grabbed the power in 1949, Aiqing consulted Mao Zedong on Chinese literary policy and traveled all over the world on behalf of the government. But in 1957, after accusing her of the writer Ding Ling as "justifi", Ai Qing was deprived of his writers' association member and his property.

The father of love was a Chinese poet Ai Ki, accused during anti - rights movement. In 1958, when Ai Weiwei was 1 year old, the family was sent to the labor camp in the wilderness of Heilongjiang Province. They were then expelled to Xinjiang Shihezi in 1961, where they lived for 16 years. After Mao's death and the end of the cultural revolution, the family returned to Beijing in 1976. In 1978, Ai Weiwei attended the Beijing Film Academy and learned animation. Along with Madsen, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Acheng, Qu Leilei in 1978, he became one of the founder of the early avant-garde art group "Stars". The group disbanded in 1983, but Ai Weiwei took part in the annual Star Group performance in 1989, Star: 10 years (Hannat Gallery, Hong Kong and Taipei), and in 2007 the retrospective taking place in Beijing Exhibition: Origin Point (Today's museum), Beijing)