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The Lost Generation: The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968--1980)
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Hardcover. Translator(s): Horko, Krystyna. Num Pages: 580 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 236 x 37. Weight in Grams: 984.
The Lost Generation is a vital component to understanding Maoism. The book provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young “educated” city-dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. Bonnin closely examines the Chinese leadership’s motivations and the methods that they used over time to implement their objectives, as well as the day-to-day lives of those young people in the countryside, their difficulties, their doubts, their resistance and, ultimately, their revolt. The author draws on a rich and diverse array of sources, concluding with a comprehensive assessment of the movement that shaped ... Read more
The Lost Generation is a vital component to understanding Maoism. The book provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young “educated” city-dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. Bonnin closely examines the Chinese leadership’s motivations and the methods that they used over time to implement their objectives, as well as the day-to-day lives of those young people in the countryside, their difficulties, their doubts, their resistance and, ultimately, their revolt. The author draws on a rich and diverse array of sources, concluding with a comprehensive assessment of the movement that shaped ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629964818
SKU
V9789629964818
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99-1
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Michel Bonnin is Professor at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France. From 1991 to 1998 he was the director of the French Research Centre on Contemporary China and editor-in-chief of China Perspectives, both of which he founded in Hong Kong. His primary areas of research are the social and political issues in the People’s Republic of China. ... Read more
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