Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980

ISBN-13: 9781108712491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Emily Honig; Xiaojian Zhao

Opis

This revisionist history of China's sent-down youth movement draws on rich archival research to show how participants in the movement - the sent-down youth, their parents, and local government officials - disregarded, circumvented, and manipulated state policy, ultimately undermining a decade-long Maoist project.

Recenzje

'Across the Great Divide will be of interest to not only scholars of modern China but also to a wider audience interested in understanding the dynamics characterizing one of the greatest social experiments of the twentieth century. Individual chapters will serve well as assigned readings for undergraduate courses, offering local perspectives on what the sent-down youth movement actually meant in practice.' Justin Wu, Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Farewell to the Huangpu River; 2. Not all quiet on the rural front; 3. The unplanned economy; 4. Inappropriate intimacies; 5. Urban outposts in rural China; 6. Things fall apart; 7. Epilogue.