My thoughts then turned to the earlier anti-Rightist campaign and I told me listeners about that too.

In 1957, when Mao attacked me in the anti-rightist campaign, no one would defend me.

Chief among them were the anti-rightist campaign of 1957 and the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 until 1976, when Mao died.

"My father was a target in the anti-rightist campaign 30 years ago," one said.

Both were chosen to join the Communist Party, but both were then expelled in 1957 during the anti-rightist campaign.

Soon afterward, an anti-rightist campaign punishes those who did speak freely.

In an account of Liang's last years, we learn almost by accident that he supported the Communist Party during the anti-rightist campaign of 1957.

One reason for Mr. Zhu's handling of the demonstrations may be his own painful experience beginning with the anti-rightist campaign of 1957.

Unfortunately for those involved, the campaign is quickly replaced with an "anti-rightist" campaign leading in an opposite direction of the Hundred Flowers.

He was denounced in 1957 in the Communist Party's anti-rightist campaign because of a short story he had written.