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

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N Glossary Anzhi bangongshi 安置辦公室 Settlement Bureau Anzhi jiuye bangongshi 安置就業辦公室 Resettlement and Hiring Bureau Anzhiban 安置辦 Resettlement and Hiring Bureau axiang 阿鄉 country bumpkin bagen 拔根 uproot ban gong ban du 半工半讀 half-work half-study (school) ban nong ban du 半農半讀 half-agricultural work halfstudy (school) banjiezi geming 半節子革命 a revolutionary who stops half-way bei laor 北老兒 a guy from the Great North bei laoxiang 北老鄉 an old country bumpkin from the Great North Beidahuang 北大荒 the (Manchurian) Great North Beijingzhuang 北京莊 Beijing (educated youth) Village bianxiang laogai 變相勞改 disguised reform though labor bingtuan, see shengchan jianshe bingtuan bingtui 病退 return (to the city) for reasons of sickness cha hukou 查戶口 to check residence books THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 457 THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 457 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM 458 | GLOSSARY chadui 插隊 join a team chadui luohu 插隊落戶 join a team and establish residence chaozhi 超支 being in deficit, spending more than one earns chaxiong 插兄 a long-settled guy chengbao 承包 production contracts chengshi hukou baoliuzheng 城市戶口保留證 a certificate for maintaining urban residency chijiao yisheng 赤腳醫生 barefoot doctor chou lao jiu 臭老九 a ninth category stinker (intellectual) chou zhishifenzi 臭知識分子 stinking intellectual chuangzuotan 創作談 thoughts on creation chushen bu hao 出身不好 to have bad origins da chuanlian 大串聯 revolutionary networking da fa zhiqing cai 大發知青財 to make money on the backs of the zhiqing da pipan 大批判 mass criticism daidui ganbu 帶隊幹部 accompanying cadres daiye qingnian 待業青年 young person waiting for employment danding 單頂 single replacement danwei 單位 work unit danwei baogan 單位包干 responsibility per unit danwule de yidai 耽誤了的一代 the generation that was made to waste its time dao nongcun qu 到農村去 going to the villages dazibao 大字報 big character poster di san xian 第三線 the third front dingti 頂替 replacing a retiree by one of his/her children dou si pi xiu 斗私批修 combating egotism and criticizing revisionism duibu 隊部 a production team’s administrative offices dushu wuyong lun 讀書無用論 the theory of the uselessness of study THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 458 THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 458 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM GLOSSARY | 459 e yun 惡運 bad destiny er laogai 二勞改 a second-time convict fan chaoliu 反潮流 going against the tide feige 飛鴿 carrier pigeon fen zao 分灶 separating the ovens fudaoyuan 輔導員 instructor gaizao 改造 reform gaizaodui 改造隊 reform team gao bingtui 搞病退 scheming to obtain authorization to return for reasons of sickness gaokao 高考 national higher education entrance exam geminghua 革命化 revolutionize getihu 個體戶 self-employed gongfen 工分 work point gongnongbing 工農兵 worker-peasant-soldier gongnongbing xueyuan 工農兵學員 worker-peasant-soldier students gongnongshang lianhe qiye 工農商聯合企業 an enterprise combining agriculture, industry, and commerce gongren jiuchadui 工人糾察隊 workers’ militia gongshe 公社 people’s commune gongxuandui 工宣隊 workers’ propaganda team gongzuozheng 工作證 work card gua gou 掛鈎 establishing close ties guanxiwang 關係網 network of contacts guanxixue 關係學 the art of networking gudinggong 固定工 permanent worker guikou baogan 歸口包干 responsibility per branch guojia xuyao 國家需要 the country’s needs guoluke 過路客 passing guest guoying nongchang 國營農場 state farm guxiang 故鄉 place of birth (native place) hao ernü zhi zai sifang 好兒女志在四方 good young men and women are determined to go to the four corners of the country hei an zhi 黑安制 “black” assignment system THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 459 THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 459 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM 460 | GLOSSARY hei ren hei hu 黑人黑戶 black (illegal) resident hei wulei 黑五類 Five Black Categories Heigui 黑鬼 a Heilongjiang devil, black devil hetonggong 合同工 worker under contract hua denghao 劃等號 to draw an equal sign (=) huangyou 荒友 buddy from the Great North huichengfeng 回城風 the return to the city wind huixiang 回鄉 return to one’s home region huixiang zhiqing 回鄉知青 an educated youth from the countryside, returning to his/ her home village hukou 戶口 legal residence certificate (household registration) hun 混 living from day to day, hanging around hunke 混客 layabout huo xue huo yong 活學活用 study and living application (of Mao Zedong Thought) huzhang 戶長 household head jiandu laodong 監督勞動 labor under surveillance jiangyonghui 講用會 meeting for the practical application (of Mao Zedong Thought) jianwu nü zhishi qingnian zui 姦污女知識青年 罪 the crime of raping a female educated youth jiaoxin 交心 having an open-hearted conversation jiating chushen 家庭出身 family origins jiedu 借讀 going to a school outside of one’s place of residence jiehun anjia 結婚安家 marrying and starting a family jieji chengfen 階級成分 class status jitihu 集體戶 collective households Jiuyesi 就業司 Employment Department junxuandui 軍宣隊 army propaganda team junxunzu 軍訓組 military training groups K cheng K城 “K-city”: Hong Kong THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 460 THE LOST GENERATION_FA02_17June2013.indd 460 19/6/13 3:14 PM 19/6/13 3:14 PM GLOSSARY | 461 kang 炕 heated brick bed keyi jiaoyuhao de zinü 可以教育好的子 女 a child who can be potentially rehabilitated (literally: who can...