TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonnin,Michel
AU  - Horko,Krystyna
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The lost generation: the rustification of Chinese youth (1968-1980) 
SN  - 9789629969226
AV  - HQ799.8.C5 B6613 2013
U1  - 305.235095109047 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Urban-rural migration
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Youth
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; 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; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789629969226/
ER  -