“Four Clean-Ups” Campaign: Six Kinds of Farmers’ Behavior

The “Four Clean-ups” Campaign, which took place from 1963 to 1966, was a political movement that followed the Great Leap Forward and preceded the Cultural Revolution. It was an important political event in the Chinese history. In recent years, academic discussions have mainly revolved around the state’s upper-level exploration of the “Four Clean-ups” Campaign, while there has been less research on the implementation of this movement in rural society. This article attempts to explore the changes in the “Four Clean-ups” Campaign from the perspective of villages by analyzing the behavioral logic adopted by different types of individual farmers (including dispatched cadres, production team cadres, active members of poor and lower-middle-class farmers, four types of hostile elements, ordinary farmers, etc.) in the “Four Clean-ups” Campaign to explore social behavior in state political movements.