Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980

by Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao

Book Overview

The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of the intense suffering and hardship of the period. Drawing on rich archival research focused on Shanghai's youth in village settlements in remote regions, this history of the movement pays particular attention to how it was informed by and affected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108498736
• ISBN13: 9781108498739
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"