Liu Antagen May 2026

Please note that detailed biographical records from this period are often sparse. The following information is synthesized from available historical accounts, memoirs, and scholarly references. Who Was He? Liu Antagen (c. 1920s – unknown) was a peasant farmer from Hubei province , China. He is remembered not as a politician or intellectual, but as an ordinary villager who, during a brief window of political liberalization in 1957, wrote a large-character poster (dazibao) criticizing the Chinese Communist Party’s rural policies. His story symbolizes the risks faced by common people during the volatile campaigns of Mao Zedong