TY - BOOK ID - 86026671 TI - Chairman Mao's children PY - 2021 SN - 1108934110 1108946054 1108945295 9781108934114 1108844251 9781108844253 9781108928786 1108928781 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Down to the countryside movement (China) KW - Youth KW - Urban-rural migration KW - Zhiqing generation. KW - History. KW - Government policy KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - Cities and towns, Movement from KW - City-country migration KW - Counterurbanization KW - Migration, Urban-rural KW - Urban exodus KW - Migration, Internal KW - Rural-urban relations KW - Young people KW - Young persons KW - Youngsters KW - Youths KW - Age groups KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Down to the countryside campaign (China) KW - Sent-down movement (China) KW - Shang shan xia xiang yun dong (China) KW - Shangshan xiaxiang yundong (China) KW - UMDC movement (China) KW - Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement (China) KW - Zhiqing generation KW - Educated youth (Zhiqing generation) KW - Rusticated youth (Zhiqing generation) KW - Sent-down youth (Zhiqing generation) KW - Shang shan xia xiang zhi qing (Zhiqing generation) KW - Shangshan xiaxiang zhiqing (Zhiqing generation) KW - Zhi qing generation KW - Generations KW - Population KW - S06/1058 KW - S11/0731 KW - China: Politics and government--Xiafang (sending down to the villages) KW - China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86026671 AB - 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. ER -