Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the New China allows some of …
In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story and the story of her generation of urban middle-school graduates sent to the countryside during China's …
When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and …
" Introduction Of all the political campaigns that reconfigured daily life in the first three decades of the People's Republic of China, the sent-down youth movement that sent 17 …
In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread …
In contrast to the Lost Generation of youth in the West, who were disoriented and disillusioned by the First World War and its aftermath, the Chinese youth born between 1895 …
This book launches an ambitious reexamination of the elite politics behind one of the most remarkable transformations in the late twentieth century. As the first part of a new …
How do we apply Chairman Mao's Thought to get fat pigs? Squad Leader Ho (who knew the most about pigs) replied that, according to Chairman Mao, one must investigate the problem …
P Bridgham - The China Quarterly, 1968 - cambridge.org
In January 1967, Communist China's “great proletarian cultural revolution” entered a new stage—a stage of violent overthrow of all those in positions of authority in the Party and …