Chairman Mao's Children

ISBN-13: 9781108928786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Bin Xu

Opis

Exploration of how China's 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past, caught between the political and personal.

Recenzje

'… Xu's study is a fresh experiment and an undoubted contribution to the already relatively mature research field of educated youth, as it not only fills academic gaps but also meets the needs of the general public.' Jiawen Sun, The China Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Winners' stories; 2. Unequal memories; 3. The wasted years and a land of wonder: The literary memory; 4. Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!: Exhibits and museums as sites of memory; 5. Nostalgia, resistance, and the pursuit of happiness: Generation and memory in groups; 6. 'Comrades from five lakes and four seas!': When groups chuanlian (link up); Conclusion; Appendix: Methods and data.