The Lost Generation The Rustication of China’s Educated Youth (1968–1980) / by Miche Bonnin ; translated by Krystyna Horko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonnin, Michel, author.

Contributor:

Horko, Krystyna, translator.

Standardized Title:

Generation perdue. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Urban-rural migration--China--History--20th century.

Urban-rural migration.

Youth--China--Social conditions--20th century.

Youth.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

China.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xxxix, 515 pages) :) illustrations, map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.

Summary:

The Lost Generation is a vital component to an understanding of Maoism. The book provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young "educated" city dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. Bonnin closely examines the Chinese leadership's motivations and the methods that it used over time to implement its objectives, as well as the day-to-day lives of those young people in the countryside, their difficulties, their doubts, their resistance, and, ultimately, their revolt. The author draws on a rich and diverse array of sources, concluding with a comprehensive assessment of the movement that shaped an entire generation, including a majority of today's cultural, economic, and political elite.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Illustrations

Part one. Motivations

Ideological motives

Political motivations

Socioeconomic motives

Part two. The life and dealth of the Xiaxiang movement : policy changes

The managers and the ideologue : the prelude and interlude of the Cultural Revolution (1955-1966)

The mass movement (1968-1976)

Irresistible agony (1977-1980)

The shadow of Xiaxiang in the 1980s

Part three. Firsthand experience

The conditions of departure : "voluntary" deportation

Material difficulties and low morals

Part four. Social resistance

The social control system

Passive resistance and its effects

Part five. Assessment of the Xiaxiang "movement" in history

Socioeconomic assessment

Political and ideological assessment

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index of places

Index of persons

Thematic index.

Notes:

Translation of Geþneþration perdue : le mouvement d'envoi des jeunes instruits à la campagne en Chine, 1968-1980.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-498) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789629969226

962996922X

OCLC:

867742074