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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-22 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 130
Pages: 130
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Institute of East Asi
Language: en
Pages: 249
Pages: 249
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-29 - Publisher: Georgetown University Press
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the c
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Lexington Books
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Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This history of China's sent-down youth movement uses archival research to revise popular notions about power dynamics during the Cultural Revolution.