After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese
intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor
farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look
at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished
Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered
Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual
as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to
the state for self-preservation. While Mao's campaign victimized
the banished, many of those same people also turned against their
comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to
remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the
exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances
of survival.
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