In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past, caught between the political and the personal.
In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past, caught between the political and the personal.
Bin Xu is Associate Professor at Emory University, and the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (2017), which won the 2018 Best Book Prize for Cultural Sociology and Honorable Mention for Asia from the American Sociological Association.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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