Emerging from the Shadow of the Great Leap Forward: A Brief Window of Opportunity Before the Cultural Revolution (1960–1966)
摘要
This chapter will focus on the adjustment and restoration of China’s overseas Chinese policies between the end of the Great Leap Forward and the onset of the Cultural Revolution, as well as the growing connections between the Chinese community in France and mainland China during this period. After the end of the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese Communist Party, guided by the principles of ‘adjustment, consolidation, enrichment, and improvement,’ implemented a series of policies aimed at recovering and developing the national economy. This period also brought relative stability to the affairs of overseas Chinese, with their rights being better protected, leading to a more relaxed political environment for the community. Following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and France in 1964, overseas Chinese in France were granted a brief window to return to China. Simultaneously, the shift in diplomatic recognition between the communist China and the nationalist China in France sparked a series of intense ideological struggles, as both the Communist Party and the Kuomintang sought to win the allegiance of the Wenzhou Chinese community in France.