Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980 by Xiaojian Zhao, Emily Honig

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

Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China

Xiaojian Zhao, Emily Honig

224 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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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 pe...

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