The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban
youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as
a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of
the intense suffering and hardship of the period. Drawing on rich
archival research focused on Shanghai's youth in village
settlements in remote regions, this history of the movement pays
particular attention to how it was informed by and affected the
critical issue of urban-rural relations in the People's Republic of
China. It highlights divisions, as well as connections, created by
the movement, particularly the conflicts and collaborations between
urban and rural officials. Instead of chronicling a story of
victims of a monolithic state, Honig and Zhao show how participants
in the movement - the sent-down youth, their parents, and local
government officials - disregarded, circumvented, and manipulated
state policy, ultimately undermining a decade-long Maoist project.
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