The Identity of Zhiqing: The Lost Generation

by Weiyi Wu and Fan Hong

Book Overview

Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than 16 million secondary school-leavers in different cities were relocated to rural areas. The Movement shaped the lives of these young people and assigned them a shared group identity: Zhiqing, or the Educated Youth.

This book provides new research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138302546
• ISBN13: 9781138302549
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"