""Zhiqing: Stories from China's Special Generation" presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were "sent down" to the countryside during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao's call for China's "educated youth" (zhiqing) to go to the poorest provinces and distant borders, where they worked with the local people in villages or on ..."
Zhiqing Stories From China's Special Generation von KangXuepeiKang 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-70-1, ISBN: 1-937875-70-9
"Big Sister Wang loved to have girls crowded around the burning stove inher
mailroom, knitting and chatting. This provided fuel for gossipto broadcast onher
grapevine. Whenwe were working in the fields during the day,she would leanon
the windowsill and stare at the dull view of the trail leading intothe woods
forhours, bored to death. Liu Xiaojie, a zhiqing from Harbin, was my buddy in our
dorm. He wasin love with my highschool clas ..."