Chairman Mao's children : generation and the politics of memory in China / Bin Xu, Emory University.
| Author/creator |
Xu, Bin (Sociology professor) author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| Copyright Notice | 2021 |
| Description | xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction -- Winners stories -- Unequal memories -- The wasted years and a land of wonder: The literary memory -- Regretless youth and Long Live Youth!: Exhibits and museums as sites of memory -- Nostalgia, resistance, and the pursuit of happiness: Gneration and memory in groups -- "Comrades from Five Lakes and Four Seas!" : When groups Chuanlian. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Xu, Bin (Sociology professor) Chairman Mao's children New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108934114 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021020341 |
| ISBN | 9781108844253 |
| ISBN | 1108844251 hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| ISBN | paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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