The Lost Generation: The Rustication of China’s Educated Youth (1968–1980)

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THE LOST GENERATION THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd i THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd i 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd ii THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd ii 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM The Lost Generation The Rustication of China’s Educated Youth (1968–1980) By Michel Bonnin Translated by Krystyna Horko The Chinese University Press THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd iii THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd iii 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM The Lost Generation: The Rustication of China’s Educated Youth (1968–1980) By Michel Bonnin Translated by Krystyna Horko English edition © The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. ISBN: 978-962-996-481-8 This translation of Génération perdue: Le mouvement d’envoi des jeunes instruits à la campagne en Chine, 1968–1980, originally published in France in 2004, is published by arrangement with Éditions de l’ÉHESS, with the support from Centre national du livre in France. Copyright © 2004 Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris The Chinese University Press The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong Fax: +852 2603 7355 E-mail: cup@cuhk.edu.hk Website: www.chineseupress.com Printed in Hong Kong THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd iv THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd iv 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM No, I’m not complaining about my own fate, my lost youth, and twisted soul, those cruel memories left over from countless sleepless nights. One by one, I overthrew the precepts, and broke the chains. Now all that remains in my heart is a vast field of ruins … But I got up and now I stand on a vast horizon where no one can throw me to the ground again by any means. Shu Ting, “Cry of a Generation,” 1980 THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd v THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd v 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd vi THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd vi 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM ...