China's Sent-Down Generation : Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program /

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During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong's "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be publishe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rene, Helena K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Series:Public management and change.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Administrative agencies > China > Evaluation.
Urban-rural migration > Government policy > China > History > 20th century.
Forced migration > China > History > 20th century.
Urban youth > Government policy > China > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The problem : how was China able to send 17 million urban youth to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution?
  • Administering economic development : a prelude to the Cultural Revolution and rustication
  • The politics of the Cultural Revolution (1965-67) : toppling bureaucrats, perduring bureaucracy
  • Rustication : policy and administrative implementation
  • Public administration and the sent-down experience
  • Conclusion : rustication as public administration.

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