Old Photos (Volume 2)

Author: Feng Keli
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Publish Date: 1997-12-01
Features: Excerpt: ·Old Stories Revisited· Gu Xunzhong's Reflection on the "Five Anti-Corruption Campaign" is similar to other political movements in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The "Five Anti-Corruption Campaign" carried out in early 1952 was also conducted in the form of an "urgent and stormy mass movement." Even if one has not experienced that storm, just looking at the few photographs published here that reflect the "Five Anti-Corruption Campaign" in Shanghai, one can feel the momentum and atmosphere. The opening and rise of Shanghai are almost synchronized with the development of modern capitalist economy in China. Or to put it the other way around, the modern history of Shanghai is a history of the development of capitalist economy in China. Therefore, it is quite natural that the "Five Anti-Corruption Campaign," which targets the national bourgeoisie as its main adversary, takes Shanghai as its main battlefield. It is precisely for this reason that what we see in these old photographs can be said to be the main scenes of the "Five Anti-Corruption Campaign," which are extremely precious.