Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-Education in Mao's China

by Ning Wang

After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501713183
• ISBN13: 9781501713187
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher