Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign
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The Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign was a Chinese political campaign from October 1983 to February 1984 that was started by political factions in the leadership of the Communist Party of China who were fearing the distribution of Western liberal ideas among the Chinese population due to their relatively recent open door policy.
Spiritual Pollution has been called "a deliberately vague term that embraces every manner of bourgeois import from erotica to existentialism" by author Pico Ayer, and "obscene, barbarous or reactionary materials, vulgar taste in artistic performances, indulgence in individualism" and statements that "run counter to the country's social system" by Deng Liqun, Communist Party Propaganda Chief at the time of the campaign. [1]
The campaign is said to have reached a climax in mid November 1983 and "then reined in and more or less dropped into the memory hole by the dawn of 1984."[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Battling "Spiritual Pollution", Nov. 28, 1983, By PICO IYER
- ^ [ http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-4687(198409)24%3A9%3C947%3A%22ITCBS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 "Just in Time!": China Battles Spiritual Pollution on the Eve of 1984, Thomas B. Gold, Asian Survey, Vol. 24, No. 9 (Sep., 1984), pp. 947-974 ]
[edit] Bibliography
- Hudson, Christopher, The China Handbook: Regional handbooks of economic development: prospects onto the 21st century, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
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