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Book SynopsisIn Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace Yihong Pan tells her story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement.
Trade ReviewIt is in Pan's own remembrances that individuals emerge most affectingly. In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace she provides a critical building block for the comprehensive history of post-1949 rural China that waits to be written. * History: Review Of New Books *
Table of ContentsChapter 2 Before the Countryside Chapter 3 Why Was There a Rustication Movement? An Examination of the Goals of the Government Chapter 4 Why Did I Go to the Countryside? Chapter 5 Life on the Army and State Farms Chapter 6 Life in Rural Villages Chapter 7 Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace Chapter 8 Re-education in the Vast Land Chapter 9 Love and Marriage Chapter 10 The "Back to the City Wind" Chapter 11 "We Want to Go Home;" "We Want Human Rights" Chapter 12 No Regrets for Our Youth? or Youth Sacrificed in Vain?
