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"Zhiqing: Stories from China's Special Generation" presents the
recollections of fourteen men and women who were "sent down" to the
countryside during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
(1966-1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors
left school to heed Mao's call for China's "educated youth"
(zhiqing) to go to the poorest provinces and distant borders, where
they worked with the local people in villages or on military farms
and construction teams. From the Great Northern Wilderness to
Hainan Island, their true-to-life stories illustrate the harsh
realities of rural existence and Cultural Revolution politics while
focusing on personal joys and miseries. While not meant as a
political statement, these stories serve as a powerful testimony to
the experience of an entire Chinese generation.
"It was my distinct pleasure to have served as in-house editor of
Kang Xuepei's "In the Countryside," which was initially her masters
of arts thesis at SHSU. It was hard to imagine the horrors that
these Chinese youth had to go through during that period of Mao's
experiment in social engineering and more amazing to realize that
most of them came through it all without intense bitterness toward
those who thrust them into such perilous and uncomfortable
circumstances. In this book you will find a sampling of the
experiences of "zhiqing" from many perspectives written in
strikingly fine prose."--Paul Ruffin, director, Texas Review
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