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Author | : John Israel |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2023-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 153817426X |
In December 1968 Mao Zedong proclaimed that China’s educated urban youth should move to the countryside to be reeducated by the poor and lower middle peasants. Some seventeen million who responded to his call spent the better part of a decade laboring in remote and impoverished regions. Returning to the cities in the late 1970s, undereducated, unemployed, and manifestly unprepared to contribute to China’s post-Maoist future, the rusticated youth were dubbed the “Lost Generation”. How then, could China transform itself into an economic and military behemoth without the support of an entire generation of educated men and women? A close look at a group of young Beijingers suggests that at least some of the rusticated millions reentered urban life with assets that enabled them to play a creative role. “The Beijing Fifty-five” were atypical insofar as they had volunteered to carve rubber plantations out of a tropical wilderness on China’s southwest border a year before the wave of involuntary recruits. However, their struggle to survive cultural, political, and physical challenges was typical. Drawing from the spoken and written testimony of the Fifty-five, this book shows in dramatic detail how “The Lost Generation” survived the tribulations of the Mao years to help build today’s China.
Author | : Zi-ping Luo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Deng Shiao Yang |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
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ISBN | : 9780228895084 |
Author | : Heidi Lloyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-08 |
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ISBN | : 9781735427546 |
Body of Knowledge is a daughter's story of discovering her true paternity that resulted partly from her mother's traumatic uprooting from a well-established German colonial family in China following World War II and the unfolding Communist Revolution.This loving portrayal of a family's life journey touches the lives of its readers, whose own family histories have suffered loss, grief, and gratitude. Experiencing the Trendel, Marschall, and Marsh families' multigenerational challenges during the first half of the twentieth century reminds us of the resiliency in humankind, and also how the love and support of families--and of communities--is the source for life's greatest rewards.In these pages, Lloyd has given us a vivid glimpse of China as it passed through its last imperial days and its subjugation to foreign conquest and commerce-the era of her ancestors. We experience China's unstoppable and violent move toward national sovereignty at the cost of thousands of lives and family destruction-the era of her mother. Through these stories we are given the gift of connection across continents, generations, hardships, and triumphs. The book's tribute to family lineage reminds us to remember, honor, and be thankful for our own.
Author | : Xinran |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2010-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307388530 |
China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel’s Working and Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China—a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before.
Author | : Yawei Liu/Michael Cerny |
Publisher | : Bouden House |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2022-04-27 |
Genre | : Education |
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The U.S.-China educational exchange began auspiciously after a 30-year hiatus in 1978 when Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced his strategic decision to send 5,000 students and scholars from China each year to further their education. 1 Then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter famously responded, “Tell him to send 100,000.” This was the launch of educational exchange as a core pillar of the U.S.-China relationship. Until the 40th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-China relations and U.S.-China educational exchange in 2019, there was general agreement that the exchange of students and scholars benefited both countries. There was recognition that the enormous increase in personal interaction and friendships — and knowledge about each other’s society, culture, economy, and government — strengthened understanding, trust, and cooperation. At a time when U.S.-China relations are at its lowest point since the normalization of relations, the benefits of educational exchange are being questioned, if not under assault. Few could have predicted that Chinese students would be weaponized by both sides, caught up in the political and security disputes between the two governments. A trade war, political tensions, concerns about academic espionage and influence operations, rising incidents of anti-Asian hate, and a global pandemic have created a perfect storm to stir up distrust as well as retaliatory measures that restrict student mobility on both sides of the Pacific. After years of fast growth, the number of Chinese students and researchers coming to the U.S. has slowed. China is still the largest source of international students in the U.S., accounting for about one-third of the total, but America’s appeal is weakening. Is this shift toward declining numbers an overdue correction to better protect America against academic espionage and influence operations and prevent China from capitalizing on American know-how to accelerate its own progress? Or is this decline in numbers an unnecessary and damaging hit on American universities’ preeminent position in global higher education and its open science model, leading to loss of U.S. competitiveness and international prestige? This report more broadly, is an attempt to discern the benefits, risks, and challenges of U.S.-China educational exchange and determine how educational exchange can advance the interests of both the U.S. and China going forward.
Author | : Orville Schell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0679643478 |
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Author | : Alec Ash |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628727659 |
“Ash’s book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . A gifted observer.”—Washington Post If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world. Wish Lanterns offers a deep dive into the life stories of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child, netizen, and self-styled loser. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north. “Fred,” born on the tropical southern island of Hainan, is the daughter of a Party official, while Lucifer is a would-be international rock star. Snail is a country boy and Internet gaming addict, and Mia is a fashionista rebel from far west Xinjiang. Following them as they grow up, go to college, find work and love, all the while navigating the pressure of their parents and society, Wish Lanterns paints a vivid portrait of Chinese youth culture and of a millennial generation whose struggles and dreams reflect the larger issues confronting China today.
Author | : Andrew Scobell |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2020-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1977404200 |
To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.
Author | : Lianke Yan |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2024-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1478059389 |
Yan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday life in contemporary China. In Sound and Silence, Yan compares his literary project to a blind man carrying a flashlight whose role is to help others perceive the darkness that surrounds them. Often described as China’s most censored author, Yan reflects candidly on literary censorship in contemporary China. He outlines the Chinese state’s project of national amnesia that suppresses memories of past crises and social traumas. Although being banned in China is often a selling point in foreign markets, Yan argues that there is no requisite correlation between censorship and literary quality. Among other topics, Yan also examines the impact of American literature on Chinese literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Encapsulating his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history, Sound and Silence includes an introduction by translator Carlos Rojas and an afterword by Yan.