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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.

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  • Title Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
  • Author Bin Xu
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2021-06-17
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781108844253 / 1108844251
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Urban-rural migration - Political aspects -, Down to the countryside movement (China)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021020341
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.235

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