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Chairman Mao's Children - Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Paperback)
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Chairman Mao's Children - Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Paperback)
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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. Exploring
representations of memory including personal life stories,
literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues
that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile
worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These
memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official
narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat
story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering
and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political
responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of
this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the
political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret,
and pride and trauma.
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