China's Sent-Down Generation: Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program

by Helena K Rene and Helena K. Rene

Book Overview

During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong's "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese to date, examines the mechanisms and dynamics of state craft in China, from the rustication program's inception in 1968 to its official termination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589019873
• ISBN13: 9781589019874
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher