The Lost Generation

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The Rustication of China's Educated Youth (1968–1980)

By Michel Bonnin

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The Lost Generation by Michel Bonnin offers a comprehensive examination of the Maoist movement that sent seventeen million educated urban youths to live as peasants. The book explores the Chinese leadership’s motivations, the methods used to achieve their goals, and the everyday realities faced by these young people, including their struggles, doubts, resistance, and eventual revolt. Drawing on diverse sources, Bonnin provides a detailed analysis of a movement that shaped an entire generation and influenced much of China's contemporary elite.
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This book is suited for readers interested in Chinese history, political movements, and educational policy, particularly those seeking a scholarly yet accessible study of Maoist China and the experiences of its youth during the Cultural Revolution era.

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The Lost Generation is a vital component to an understanding of Maoism. Bonnin 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 it used over time to implement its 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 an entire generation, including a majority of today's cultural, economic, and political elite.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789629964818

Publisher: The Chinese University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 September 2013

Country: Hong Kong

Imprint: The Chinese University Press

Contributors:

Translated by Krystyna Horko

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 991g

Pages: 580

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About the Author

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. Bonnin has written extensively in French, English, and Chinese on the rustication movement of educated urban youth during the Maoist period.