Event
Lushan meeting of 1959
Party leadership meeting in July 1959 at which Peng Dehuai criticised the Great Leap Forward and was then condemned.
- Dates
- Jul 1959
According to Communist Party of China
- interventions Mao Zedong
- part of Great Leap Forward
- harmed Peng Dehuai
According to Yang Jisheng
- interventions Mao Zedong
Connections 6
interventions
- Peng Dehuai 14 Jul 1959 wrote Mao a letter on 14 July 1959 praising the Leap's gains and listing its faults Primary record 12
- Mao Zedong initiated criticism of Peng Dehuai, which the Party's 1981 resolution calls an error According to Communist Party of China Primary record 3
- Mao Zedong purged Peng and his supporters, in Ian Johnson's account of Yang Jisheng According to Yang Jisheng Scholarship & press 4
involved
- Communist Party of China Political Bureau meeting at Lushan, July 1959 Primary record 3
part of
- Great Leap Forward According to Communist Party of China Primary record 3
harmed
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Peng Dehuai
According to Communist Party of China
Primary record
3
The 1981 resolution calls the decision against Peng and three others entirely wrong, and says a majority of those unjustifiably criticized were rehabilitated.
Timeline 2 dates
- Jul 1959 Lushan meeting of 1959
- 14 Jul 1959 Peng Dehuai intervened in Lushan meeting of 1959
Proof 4 sources
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Memoirs of a Chinese Marshal: The Autobiographical Notes of Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), appendix: letter to Chairman Mao of 14 July 1959, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1984.
Primary record
Now I am stating, specially for your reference, a number of my views that I have not expressed fully at the group meetings.
A growing tendency towards boasting and exaggeration on a fairly extensive scale.
At the Beidaihe Meeting last year, the grain output was overestimated.
In the nationwide campaign for the production of iron and steel, too many small blast furnaces were built with a waste of material, money and manpower.
Considering the above-mentioned points alone, we can say that our achievements have been really great
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Great Leap into Famine (UCD Centre for Economic Research working paper WP11/03), University College Dublin, Jan 2011.
Scholarship & press
Archived copy
Peng’s protests, in any case, were less about the famine per se than the follies of the Leap in its first phase.
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Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (text on the Marxists Internet Archive), 27 Jun 1981.
Primary record
However, in the later part of the meeting, he erred in initiating criticism of Comrade Peng Dehuai and then in launching a Party-wide struggle against “Right opportunism
From the end of 1958 to the early stage of the Lushan Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Party’s Central Committee in July 1959
led the whole Party in energetically rectifying the errors which had already been recognized
The resolution passed by the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party concerning the so-called anti-Party group of Peng Dehuai, Huang Kecheng, Zhang Wentian and Zhou Xiaozhou was entirely wrong.
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China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined (review of Tombstone and Mao's Great Famine), The New York Review of Books (text on ChinaFile), 22 Nov 2012.
Scholarship & press
At the Lushan Conference, Mao purged Peng and his supporters, accusing them of “right-opportunism.”
Chastened officials returned to the provinces eager to save their careers, duplicating Mao’s attack on Peng at the local level.
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