English Explanatory Dictionary

struggle session

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
  2. A meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied.

Word forms

struggle session struggle sessions

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 批鬥大會／批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì)

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