| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 515 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Motivations -- Ideological motives -- Political motivations -- Socioeconomic motives -- The life and death of the Xiaxiang movement : policy changes -- The managers and the ideologue : the prelude and interlude of the Cultural Revolution (1955-1966) -- The mass movement (1968-1976) -- Irresistible agony (1977-1980) -- The shadow of Xiaxiang in the 1980s -- Firsthand experience -- The conditions of departure : "voluntary" deportation -- Material difficulties and low morals -- Social resistance -- The social control system -- Passive resistance and its effects -- Assessment of the Xiaxiang "movement" in history -- Socioeconomic assessment -- Political and ideological assessment |
| Summary |
The Lost Generation is a vital component to an understanding of Maoism. The book provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young "educated" city dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. The author closely examines the Chinese leadership's motivations and the methods that it used over time to implement its objectives, as well as the day-to-day lives of those young people in the countryside, their difficulties, their doubts, their resistance, and, ultimately, their revolt. The author draws on a rich and diverse array of sources, concluding with a comprehensive assessment of the movement that shaped an entire generation, including a majority of today's cultural, economic, and political elite |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-498) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urban-rural migration -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Youth -- China -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Youth -- Political activity -- China
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Youth -- Political activity
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Urban-rural migration
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Youth -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horko, Krystyna, translator
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| ISBN |
9789629969226 |
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962996922X |
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