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A Journey to Utopia, Vol. I: The Rustication of Urban Youth in Mao's China, 1955-1980

A Journey to Utopia, Vol. I: The Rustication of Urban Youth in Mao's China, 1955-1980

Deng, Peng

Hardcover

General Education

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 12, 2026

ISBN10: 9004775544
ISBN13: 9789004775541
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 12 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Shangshan xiaxiang, or the rustication of urban youth, shaped the lives of seventeen million Chinese citizens in the Mao era and has remained a controversial topic today. The author is both a participant in and a persistent observer of this historical drama. Rejecting the statist view which extols the program as part of the Chinese nation's pursuit of a rich country with a strong military, he relates the rise and fall of xiaxiang to the radical, and often counterproductive, social reform and convulsive economic experimentation under Chairman Mao. He shows that, like all major social and economic experiments in the Mao era, the costs of xiaxiang far outweighs its benefit.

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