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Title

Mao's lost children : stories of the rusticated youth of China's cultural revolution / edited by Ou Nianzhong and Liang Yongkang ; translated by Laura Maynard.

Publication

• Portland, ME : MerwinAsia, [2015]
• Distributed by the University of Hawai'i Press

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Additional Authors

• Nianzhong, Ou
• Yongkang, Liang
• Maynard, Laura

Description

xv, 364 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
• 1900-1999
• Youth > China > Biography
• Youth > China > Social conditions > 20th century
• Youth > History > China > 20th century
• Service, Compulsory non-military > China > History > 20th century
• Urban-rural migration > China > History > 20th century
• China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 > Personal narratives
• China > Children. > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
• China > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Finding the path / Chen Guanli -- My inspiration Hou Jingjie, noted down / Liang Yongkang -- Journey of a barefoot doctor / Wang Guangzhen -- old codger and some young pearls / Deng Jingxi -- Dog Tired -- Sleepwalking / Huang Jian -- Making sugar / Li Huguang -- Making the Best of It -- My zhiqing life / Ren Jie -- Making the best of it / Zheng Xiuhua -- Bathing in the open / Hu Zhimin -- Skirt the danger of capitalism / Rao Ruiguang -- Maoist Propaganda Stars -- Oases in the cultural desert / Zhu Zhaoyu -- broadcaster ahead of her time / Yang Heping -- Pictures and memories / Lu Zhongmin -- Saluting the morning sun / Huang Ronger -- Truth was the least concern / Cao Nancai -- I helped create a hero / Chen Hongbo -- struggle to get into print / He Qinghua -- Bringers of Arts and Knowledge -- Tending the lamp of learning / Zhu Zhaoyu -- Teaching twice as hard / Feng Qiqin -- Sowing the seeds of the arts / He Yancheng -- Living with the Li -- Intoxicated by the girls / Huang Ronger -- Pulling-power with the Li / Zhong Enming -- (Illustrations follow Page 196) -- Home and Back -- Writing home / Lin Yuhua -- hard road home / Huang Jian -- Under the bell tower / Zhang Cheng -- sweetest of mangoes / Chen Hongbo -- Pastimes and Leisure -- Bookworms / Liang Yongkang -- Going to the movies / Hu Zhimin -- Coping with Scarcity -- Mothers of invention / Zhang Huixin -- Catching grasshoppers / Feng Xingkai -- Giving our stamps a face-lift / Rao Ruiguang -- Birthday present / Zhang Huixin -- Friendship and Love -- belated "thank you" / Peng Lijia -- More than mere medicine / He Qinghua -- Love in a feverish climate / Huang Ronger -- girl in the song / Chen Hongguang -- Putting down roots in Daling / Fang Jinqi -- world well lost for love / Liang Yongkang -- Escapes, Scrapes, and Tight Spots -- We plotted to run away / Song Xiaoqi -- No country for deserters / Chen Zufu -- rocky road to rehabilitation / Chen Hongbo -- stamp of success / Huang Xiaowei -- My lucky escapes / Huang Ronger -- My brush with a shark's fin / Deng Xiaodan -- Being deer to someone / Liu Jingan -- Aiming High -- studious sentry / Su Haitao -- serial dreamer / Peng Lijia -- phoenix in the hen-house / Su Zhaoxin -- Digging my way out / Peng Lijia -- Twists of Fate -- life less ordinary / Che Zhiming -- big red umbrella / Su Haitao -- Two life changing incidents / Liang Yongkang -- Long Way Home -- Set sail guy / Liang Yongkang -- Looking Back -- Just one memento / Ou Nianzhong.

ISBN

• 9781937385675
• 1937385671
• 9781937385682
• 193738568X

LCCN

^^2015946970

OCLC

• 880565727
• SCSB-11177403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library