Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-Education in Mao's China

ISBN-13: 9780774832236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Ning Wang

Opis

After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to ?re-education? by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor camp archives and other newly uncovered Chinese-language sources, including an interview with a camp guard, to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of intellectuals banished to China's remote north. Wang's use of grassroots sources challenges our perception of the intellectual as a renegade martyr ? revealing how exiles often denounced one another and, for self-preservation, declared allegiance to the state.