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Dr H Explores the Moon (Hardcover)
K Renee Horton; Illustrated by Patrick Giles; Contributions by Theresa Apodaca
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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 published in either English or Chinese to date, examines the
mechanisms and dynamics of state craft in China, from the
rustication program's inception in 1968 to its official termination
in 1980 and actual completion in the 1990s. Rustication, in the
ideology of Mao's peasant-based revolution, formed a critical
component of the Cultural Revolution's larger attack on
bureaucrats, capitalists, the intelligentsia, and "degenerative"
urban life. This book assesses the program's origins, development,
organization, implementation, performance, and public
administrative consequences. It was the defining experience for
many Chinese born between 1949 and 1962, and many of China's
contemporary leaders went through the rustication program. The
author explains the lasting impact of the rustication program on
China's contemporary administrative culture, for example, showing
how and why bureaucracy persisted and even grew stronger during the
wrenching chaos of the Cultural Revolution. She also focuses on the
special difficulties female sent-downs faced in terms of work,
pressures to marry local peasants, and sexual harassment,
predation, and violence. The author's parents were both sent downs,
and she was able to interview over fifty former sent downs from
around the country, something never previously accomplished.
China's Sent-Down Generation demonstrates the rustication program's
profound long-term consequences for China's bureaucracy, for the
spread of corruption, and for the families traumatized by this
authoritarian social experiment. The book will appeal to academics,
graduate and undergraduate students in public administration and
China studies programs, and individuals who are interested in
China's Cultural Revolution era.
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