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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
"Let a thousand First Mondays bloom" obviously alludes to Mao, but it also perhaps cites a moment in western cultural history when Mao mesemrised the first world, white, intellectual...
think of Godard, perhaps and his antics like chanting "mao,mao" at a film festival [1]
[1] apocryphal story? cant remember source...
On 5/23/06, Ashish Gulhati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 19-May-06, at 2:49 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
> on the First Monday conference on openness in chicago.
Way cool! Congratulations on FM's 10th.
>> But this batch of HTML code tucked inside a World Wide Web domain
Uh oh... Nits everywhere!
>> "Let a thousand First Mondays bloom," he says.
Arrgh. The connotations of that aren't so nice... :-) [1]
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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
<wikipedia>The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred
Flowers Movement, (百花运动/百花�\�� bǎi huā yùndòng) is
the period referring
to a brief interlude in the People's Republic of China from 1956 to
1957 during
which the Communist Party authorities permitted or encouraged a
variety of views
and solutions to ongoing problems. However, it may have been a
political trap; the
end result was that Mao persecuted those who had views different than
the party.
An ideological crackdown re-imposed Maoist orthodoxy in public
_expression_ [...]
</wikipedia>
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