英文摘要 |
In 1955, Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), harshly criticized Hu Feng, and then launched the Campaign to eradicate hidden counterrevolutionaries (Sufan Movement). It was the first political campaign since the 1954 Constitution and the organic laws of courts and procuratorates were adopted and enacted in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The campaign came fiercely and affected many people, causing serious damages and challenges to the newly-established national legal system of the PRC. As an important central leader who participated at the decisionmaking and simultaneously took charge of the political-legal works, and concurrently leading nation’s capital-the Beijing Municipality, Peng Zhen was deeply involved in the many dimensions of the Sufan Movement such as facilitating and radicalizing the campaign, and creating the model experience. The article not only carefully examines and rebuilds the important historical role played by Peng Zhen in the Sufan Movement (his official biography was lacking discussion of this issue), but also highlights the internal contradiction and tension of aiming at the developing law system and continuing obsession with the mass movement in the initial years after the founding of the PRC. The article also reflects on the understanding and perception of law of the early CCP leaders. |