Chairman Mao''s Children - Generation and the Politics of Memory in China

Exploration of how China's 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past, caught between the political and personal.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Winners' stories; 2. Unequal memories; 3. The wasted years and a land of wonder: The literary memory; 4. Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!: Exhibits and museums as sites of memory; 5. Nostalgia, resistance, and the pursuit of happiness: Generation and memory in groups; 6. 'Comrades from five lakes and four seas!': When groups chuanlian (link up); Conclusion; Appendix: Methods and data.

About the author

Bin Xu is Associate Professor at Emory University, and the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (2017), which won the 2018 Best Book Prize for Cultural Sociology and Honorable Mention for Asia from the American Sociological Association.

Summary

In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past, caught between the political and the personal.

Product details

• Authors: Bin Xu, Bin (Emory University Xu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108844253
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84425-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, c 1960 to c 1970, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Asian History, c 1960 to c 1969