1st Edition

The Identity of Zhiqing The Lost Generation

By Weiyi Wu, Fan Hong Copyright 2016
110 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than 16 million secondary school-leavers in different cities were relocated to rural areas. The Movement shaped the lives of these young people and assigned them a shared group identity: Zhiqing, or... Read more

1. Finding the "Lost Generation" 2. Linking Zhiqing’s Life Trajectories to Social History 3. To the Wider World: Group-identity Configuration I (1967-1981) 4. Drops of Water in the Ocean: Group-identity Configuration II (1980s-present) 5. The Identity of Zhiqing: Approach and Conclusion

Biography

Weiyi Wu is a postdoctoral research fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her research interests cover youth studies, life course, identity and global mobility, with a cultural studies approach.

Fan Hong is Professor of Asian Studies of Bangor University, UK. She is academic editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport. Her research interests are in the areas of culture, politics, gender and sport and she has published extensively in these fields, including the books Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom: the Liberation of Women’s Bodies in Modern China (1997) and Communists and Champions: the Politicisation of Sport in Modern China ((2013).