Mao's Children in the New China - Voices From the Red Guard Generation

List of contents

Part I Authors’ introductory remarks; Part II The interviewees; Chapter 1 Lu Xin, female: novelist; Chapter 2 Wu Shanren, male: private businessman; Chapter 3 Wang Chen, male: cadre in charge of a ferry company, and Wu Qing, male, his friend: private businessman; Chapter 4 Jie Qian, male: director in a securities company; Chapter 5 Wang Xiaozhi, male: deputy manager for a western company; Chapter 6 Yang Yinzi, male: factory technician; Chapter 7 Wan Jinli, male: general manager of a government-sponsored project; Chapter 8 male: college professor; Chapter 9 Chou Linlin, female: former head of a factory clinic; Chapter 10 Li Xiqiang, male: unemployed, and working on a book; Chapter 11 Chen Jianxin, male: college professor; Chapter 12 Yang Yuan, male: college administrator, and Song Ming, male, his friend: purchasing agent for an industrial plant; Chapter 13 Gao Yunhua, female: unemployed worker; Chapter 14 Hong Yongsheng, male: historian; Chapter 15 Zhang Aixiang, female: small business owner; Chapter 16 Lin Yuling, male: publishing editor; Chapter 17 Dai Buqing, male: unemployed worker; Chapter 18 Xu Xinhua, male: high-school principal; Chapter 19 Cao Zhenshan, male: foreign trade coordinator; Chapter 20 Cai Jinzhi, male: general manager of a state farm factory; Chapter 21 Lin Juan, female: editor of a woman’s magazine; Chapter 22 Chai Beihua, male: manager of a printing shop; Chapter 23 Xu Yaoming, male: manager of a herbal medicine trading company; Chapter 24 Song Xu, male: lawyer; Chapter 25 female: member of the Shanghai Writers’ Association;

About the author

Jiang, Yarong; Ashley, David

Summary

Personal accounts of the Cultural Revolution: an inspiring collection of interviews with former Red Guards. Members of the first generation to be born under Chairman Mao talk frankly about the changes in China over the last two decades.

Product details

• Authors: David Ashley, Ashley David, Yarong Jiang, Jiang Yarong
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2000
• EAN: 9780415223300
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22330-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Asia's Transformations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Political ideologies and movements