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The 'Hundred Flowers period refers to a brief interlude in Chinese history in the 1950s when the Chinese Communist Party authorities permitted or encouraged a variety of views and solutions. Subsequently an ideological crackdown re-imposed Marxist orthodoxy in public expression.

The name Hundred Flowers originates from a poem:

"Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend."

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