The Lost Generation - The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968-1980)

Informationen zum Autor Michel Bonnin is a professor at the ?cole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. From 1991 to 1998 he was the director of the French Research Centeron 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. Bonnin has written extensively on the rustication movement of educated urban youth during the Maoist period. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Miche Bonnin, Michel Bonnin, Michel Michel
• Assisted by: Krystyna Horko (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.10.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9789629964818
• ISBN: 978-962-996-481-8
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous