Presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were "sent down” to the countryside during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao's call for China's "educated youth” (zhiqing) to go to the poorest provinces and distant borders, where they worked with the local people in villages or on military farms and construction teams.
Presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were "sent down” to the countryside during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao's call for China's "educated youth” (zhiqing) to go to the poorest provinces and distant borders, where they worked with the local people in villages or on military farms and construction teams.
KANG XUEPEI, a zhiqing from 1969-1974 in Jia Shan County, Anhui province, had a book, In The Countryside, published by Texas Review Press. Living in Houston, she is self-employed. LI WEI, a resident of Houston, was a zhiqing from 1968-1975 in Shanxi and Hebei provinces. She has been an instructor at Lone Star College since 1992. QIN YANG, a zhiqing from 1974-1978 in Guangyuan County, Sichuan province, currently works in Houston at Air Liquide America Corporation as chief chemist. ZENG JIANJUN, a zhiqing from 1968-1973 in Beidahuang in Northeastern China, has been a research scientist with the University of Houston since 2007.
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