Lexington Books
Pages: 296
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0433-0 • Hardback • January 2003 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
978-0-7391-4092-5 • Paperback • August 2009 • $58.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-4093-2 • eBook • January 2003 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Yihong Pan is associate professor of history at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors (1997).
Chapter 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?
It 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