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The lost generation : the rustication of China's educated youth (1968-1980) /

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 clo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bonnin, Michel (Autor)
Otros Autores: Horko, Krystyna (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.