Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968–1980

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The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of the intense suffering and hardship of the period. Drawing on rich archival research focused on Shanghai's youth in village settlements in remote regions, this history of the movement pays particular attention to how it was informed by and affected the critical issue of urban-rural relations in the People's Republic of China. It highlights divisions, as well as connections, created by the movement, particularly the conflicts and collaborations between urban and rural officials. Instead of chronicling a story of victims of a monolithic state, Honig and Zhao show how participants in the movement - the sent-down youth, their parents, and local government officials - disregarded, circumvented, and manipulated state policy, ultimately undermining a decade-long Maoist project. 01.0_pp_i_i_Across_the_Great_Divide 02.0_pp_ii_ii_Cambridge_Studies_in_the_History_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China 03.0_pp_iii_iii_Across_the_Great_Divide 04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_v_v_Contents 06.0_pp_vi_vi_Illustrations 07.0_pp_vii_ix_Acknowledgments 08.0_pp_x_x_Stylistic_Note 09.0_pp_1_17_Introduction 10.0_pp_18_39_Farewell_to_the_Huangpu_River 11.0_pp_40_64_Not_All_Quiet_on_the_Rural_Front 12.0_pp_65_86_The_Unplanned_Economy 13.0_pp_87_116_Inappropriate_Intimacies 14.0_pp_117_136_Urban_Outposts_in_Rural_China 15.0_pp_137_169_Things_Fall_Apart 16.0_pp_170_184_Epilogue 17.0_pp_185_202_Bibliography 18.0_pp_203_207_Glossary 19.0_pp_208_214_Index