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Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace
China's Youth in the Rustication Movement
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2003
Summary
In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement. Based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts, the work examines the varied, and often perplexing, experiences of the seventeen million Chinese students sent to work in the countryside between 1953 and 1980. Rich in human drama, Pan's book illustrates how life in the countryside transformed the children of Mao from innocent, ignorant, yet often passionate, believers in the Communist Party into independent adults. Those same adults would lead the nationwide protests in the winter of 1978-79 that forced the government to abandon its policy of rustication. Richly textured, this work successfully blends biography with a wealth of historical insight to bring to life the trials of a generation, and to offer Chinese studies scholars a fascinating window into Mao Zedong's China.
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Edition
1/2003
Copyright Year
2003
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0433-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4093-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
1
Product Type
Monograph
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1 Before the Countryside No access Pages 9 - 34
2 Why Was There a Rustication Movement? An Examination of the Goals of the Government No access Pages 35 - 61
3 Why Did I Go to the Countryside? No access Pages 62 - 85
4 Life on the Army and State Farms No access Pages 86 - 111
5 Life in Rural Villages No access Pages 112 - 137
6 Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace No access Pages 138 - 164
7 Reeducation in the Vast Land No access Pages 165 - 180
8 Love and Marriage No access Pages 181 - 203
9 The "Back to the City Wind" No access Pages 204 - 220
10 "We Want to Go Home;" "We Want Human Rights" No access Pages 221 - 237
11 No Regrets for Our Youth? or Youth Sacrificed in Vain? No access Pages 238 - 265
