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Communication

• Slack: keep Slack open during the working hours for quick communication.

Documentation

• Github Wiki: when you achieved particular tasks, maintain the documentation on Github Wiki.

Research:

Sites for information

• https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub6/item1153.html (this site has info on the 100 flowers campaign/ period and the anti-rightists movement/ campaign)
• https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/History_of_Chinese_art#Communist_art_.281950-1980s.29 (this site has information on chinese art and artists during Mao's reign, including during the anti-rightists movement) "Art was treated as a vehicle for ideology. Artists who did not comply with government policies were punished and sent to rural areas to be “re-educated” as farmers. During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, art schools were closed, and publication of art journals and major art exhibitions ceased. Many artists and intellectuals were exiled, lynched or imprisoned."
• https://schoolshistory.org.uk/topics/world-history/mao-china-c-1930-1976/ (this site has more info on ccp and Mao Zedong in regards to the purpose behind the Anti-"rightist" movement)
• https://infogalactic.com/info/Anti-Rightist_Movement (very basic background info on the movement)
• https://www-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/195099780?pq-origsite=primo&accountid=14541 (This document has general/inside information about the experience of imprisonments and traumas of Chinese victims in labor camps during the 1950s and 1960s, China.)
• https://www-jstor-org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/45295246?sid=primo&seq=1 (This PDF is about the "cultural trauma" experienced by the falsely accused "Rightist" from the Jiabiangou Laojiao Camp.)
• https://www-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/315315330?pq-origsite=primo
• https://web-s-ebscohost-com.mutex.gmu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=535a70e8-d41c-46a1-a8b6-e18c7501f163%40redis
• Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China (https://login.mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1w6tfxm.6 ) this book includes more details on what a rightist is (and what Mao considered them), it also includes a map of labor farms

WANG, N. (2017). [Map]. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China (pp. 2–2). Cornell University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1w6tfxm.4

• The "Active Rightists" of 1957 and Their Legacy: "Right-wing Intellectuals," Revisionists, and Rights Defenders ( https://login.mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24052853 ) This article includes propaganda posters.

ZIMING, C., & Mason, C. (2007). The “Active Rightists” of 1957 and Their Legacy: “Right-wing Intellectuals,” Revisionists, and Rights Defenders. China Perspectives, 4 (72), 39–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24052853

Meetings

• Weekly meetings: Every Wednesday at 10:15 AM.
• Sporadic meetings: if need to work on discuss particular task, sporadic meeting can happen.

General Timeline

• Week 1 (6/1-6/7): Data translation + structuring data (as Python Scripts) + setting up development environment
• Week 2 (6/8-6/14): Database migration + low-fidelity design + software architecture
• Week 3 (6/15-6/21): Implementing software frameworks + design refinement
• Week 4 (6/12-6/28): Front-end and back-end development + interaction design
• Week 5 (6/29-7/5): Mid-term Checks: software status + intermediary design artifacts
• Week 6 (7/6-7/12): Front-end and back-end development + high-fidelity design (iteration)
• Week 7 (7/13-7/19): Front-end and back-end development + high-fidelity design (iteration)
• Week 8 (7/20-7/26): Front-end and back-end development + high-fidelity design (iteration)
• Week 9 (7/27-8/2): User study (if any) and final presentation preparation
• Week 10: Final Presentation (the Summer Celebration of Scholarship and Impact)