{"product_id":"banished-to-the-great-northern-wilderness-9781501713187","title":"Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 195758, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to re-education by the state.\u003ci\u003e In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao's campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine piece of scholarly work contributing to knowledge of life within Chinese penal camps. The reading is essential to students and scholars of political banishment, China’s labor reformatory, Chinese intellectuals and the Communist Party, and China studies under Mao in general.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWang Ning has presented us with an extremely rich study of \u003ci\u003ebeidahuang\u003c\/i\u003e, and the transparency of his deployment of sources, as well as his acknowledgement of their limits, ensures this book will remain relevant and valuable in the long term.... Given the details he has from such a range of survivors of \u003ci\u003ebeidahuang\u003c\/i\u003e, Wang's book is highly relevant to broader questions of how political prisoners experienced their sentence and life after release, on transitional justice, and on trauma and memory.... The first authoritative work on the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e * The PRC History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNing Wang's work inspires us to rethink thought and labour reform in China as part of a larger global history that continues to evolve.\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWang's exploration of political exiles in Mao's China incorporates his exhaustive research into a truly beautiful narrative, full of individual voices, that is every bit as raw and moving as Yan's novel. The careful but deeply thoughtful readings of sources—recollections from captives, cadres, and guards, supplemented by official documents—makes \u003ci\u003eBanished to the Great Northern Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC).\u003c\/p\u003e * Historical Studies in Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a marvelously level-headed book. Until the concluding chapter, Ning Wang is restrained in describing horrors on the individual level and devastation in terms of the impact on the general society. But finally the pulling of punches ends, and we are asked to try to imagine 'the waste of human talent.'\u003c\/p\u003e * The China journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanished to the Great Northern Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e turns out to be a piece of scholarship impressively grounded in a serious engagement with original materials.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Anti-Rightist Campaign and Political Labelling\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beijing Rightists on the Army Farms of Beidahuang\u003cbr\u003e 3. Political Offenders in Xingkaihu Labour Camp\u003cbr\u003e 4. Life and Death in Beidahuang\u003cbr\u003e 5. Inner Turmoil and Internecine Strife among Political Exiles\u003cbr\u003e 6. End without End\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Interview List\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Note on the Sources and Methodology\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040891273559,"sku":"9781501713187","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501713187.jpg?v=1750948186","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/banished-to-the-great-northern-wilderness-9781501713187","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}