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Author | : Bin Xu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108844251 |
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. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.
Author | : Li Zhi-Sui |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307791394 |
“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly intimate—contact with Mao and his inner circle. in The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience at the center of Mao's decadent imperial court. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev and reveals the actual catalyst of Nixon's historic visit. Here are also surprising details of Mao's personal depravity (we see him dependent on barbiturates and refusing to wash, dress, or brush his teeth) and the sexual politics of his court. To millions of Chinese, Mao was more god than man, but for Dr. Li, he was all too human. Dr. Li's intimate account of this lecherous, paranoid tyrant, callously indifferent to the suffering of his people, will forever alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Praise for The Private Life of Chairman Mao “From now one no one will be able to pretend to understand Chairman Mao's place in history without reference to this revealing account.”—Professor Lucian Pye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Dr. Li does for Mao what the physician Lord Moran's memoir did for Winston Churchill—turns him into a human being. Here is Mao unveiled: eccentric, demanding, suspicious, unregretful, lascivious, and unfailingly fascinating. Our view of Mao will never be the same again.”—Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time “An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Mao. [Dr. Li] portrays [Mao's imperial court] as a place of boundless decadence, licentiousness, selfishness, relentless toadying and cutthroat political intrigue.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “One of the most provocative books on Mao to appear since the publication of Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China.”—Paul G. Pickowicz, The Wall Street Journal
Author | : Ou Nianzhong |
Publisher | : Merwinasia |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781937385675 |
A collection of memoirs from more than fifty zhiqings or young Chinese who suffered under the reign of Mao Zedong during the 1960s and 1970s.
Author | : Zedong Mao |
Publisher | : China Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780835123884 |
Author | : Anita Chan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1985-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1349073172 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Posters, Chinese |
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Author | : Bin Xu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108945295 |
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. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.
Author | : Yarong Jiang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136357602 |
Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the New China allows some of them to tell their moving stories in their own voices for the first time. In this inspiring collection of interviews with former Red Guards, members of the first generation to be born under Chairman Mao talk frankly about the dramatic changes which have occurred in China over the last two decades. In discussing the impact these changes have had on their own lives, the former revolutionaries give a direct insight into how ex-Maoists view contemporary China, revealing an attitude perhaps more critical than that of most Western commentators. These poignant memoirs tell the very personal stories of how people from all walks of life were affected by both the cultural revolution and Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms. They cover subjects as diverse as marriage and divorce, the privatization of industry, family relationships, universities and the stock market. Mao's Children in the New China is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about the personal and social history of modern China.
Author | : Jiang Hong Chen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781592700790 |
Chens picture book memoir of growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China.
Author | : Mary Ann Farquhar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317475070 |
This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.