A Hundred Flowers: A Conversation with Dayton Lekner

In A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Dayton Lekner presents a detailed historical account of the influence of literary practice and circulation on Mao Zedong–era politics and mass campaigns in China. His approach differs from mainstream accounts of the ‘Hundred Flowers Campaign’ of 1956–57 in that he concentrates less on […] The post A Hundred Flowers: A Conversation with Dayton Lekner appeared first on Made in China Journal.

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