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024	7		_a10.3998/mpub.19144 _2doi
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041	0		_aeng
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072		7	_aJH _2bicssc
100	1		_aSinger, Martin _4auth _91562071
245	1	0	_aEducated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China
260			_aAnn Arbor _bUniversity of Michigan Press _c2020
300			_a1 electronic resource (123 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aMichigan Monographs In Chinese Studies _v10
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aThe Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful and dramatic involvement in Chinese affairs. It also gave them the opportunity to gain recognition as a viable and responsible part of the Chinese polity. In the end, these revolutionary youths were not successful in proving their reliability. Too "idealistic" to compromise with the bourgeois way, their sense of moral rectitude also made it impossible for them to submerge their factional differences with other revolutionary mass organizations to achieve unity and consolidate proletarian victories. Many young revolutionaries were bitterly disillusioned by their own failures and those of other segments of the Chinese population and by the assignment of recent graduates to labor in rural communes. Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China reconstructs the events of the Cultural Revolution as they affected young people. Martin Singer integrates material from a range of factors and effects, including the characteristics of this generation of youths, the roles Mao called them to play, their resentment against the older generation, their membership in mass organizations, the educational system in which they were placed, and their perception that their skills were underutilized. To most educated young people in China, Singer concludes, the Cultural Revolution represented a traumatic and irreversible loss of political innocence, made yet more tragic by its allegiance to the unsuccessful campaign of an old revolutionary to preserve his legacy from the inevitable storms of history.
536			_aAndrew W. Mellon Foundation
536			_aNational Endowment for the Humanities
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aSociology & anthropology _2bicssc _9851605
653			_aSociology and anthropology
793	0		_aOAPEN Library.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41819 _70 _zOpen Access: OAPEN Library: description of the publication
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