Mao¦s Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation

by Jiang; Yarong

• ISBN13: 9780415223317
• ISBN10: 0415223318
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution.Mao's Children in the New Chinafor the first time allows some of them to tell their moving stories in their own voices. In this inspiring collection of interviews with former Red Guards, members of the first generation to be born under Chairman Mao talk frankly about the dramatic changes which have occurred in China over the last two decades. In discussing the impact these changes have had on their own lives, the former revolutionaries give a direct insight into how ex-Maoists view contemporary China, revealing an attitude perhaps more critical than that of most Western commentators.

Author Biography

Yarong Jiang is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wyoming, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xxix
PART I Authors' introductory remarks	1	(10)
PART II The interviewees	11	(164)
female: novelist	13	(8)
Lu Xin
male: private businessman	21	(7)
Wu Shanren
male: cadre in charge of a ferry company, and Wu Quing, male, his friend: private businessman	28	(7)
Wang Chen
male: director in a securities company	35	(6)
Jie Qian
male: deputy manager for a western company	41	(5)
Wang Xiaozhi
male: factory technician	46	(8)
Yang Yinzi
male: general manager of a government-sponsored project	54	(7)
Wan Jinli
male: college professor	61	(7)
Zhu Xueqin
female: former head of a factory clinic	68	(7)
Chou Linlin
male: unemployed, and working on a book	75	(10)
Li Xiqiang
male: college professor	85	(6)
Chen Jianxin
male: college administrator, and Song Ming, male, his friend: purchasing agent for an industrial plant	91	(6)
Yang Yuan
female: unemployed worker	97	(7)
Gao Yunhua
male: historian	104	(6)
Hong Yongsheng
female: small business owner	110	(6)
Zhang Aixiang
male: publishing editor	116	(8)
Lin Yuling
male: unemployed worker	124	(4)
Dai Buqing
male: high-school principal	128	(5)
Xu Xinhua
male: foreign trade coordinator	133	(5)
Cao Zhenshan
male: general manager of a state farm factory	138	(6)
Cai Jinzhi
female: editor of a woman's magazine	144	(6)
Lin Juan
male: manager of a printing shop	150	(8)
Chai Beihua
male: manager of a herbal medicine trading company	158	(5)
Xu Yaoming
male: lawyer	163	(6)
Song Xu
female: member of the Shanghai Writers' Association	169	(6)
Wang Xiaoying
Index	175