Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation (Asia's Transformations) - Softcover

Jiang, Yarong; Ashley, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415223318 ISBN 13: 9780415223317

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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Jiang, Yarong; Ashley, David

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415223318
• ISBN 13: 9780415223317
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208