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Название книги: A Dictionary of Maqiao
Автор(ы): Han Shaogong
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Dictionary-of-Maqiao-197149.html
Translated by Julia Lovell
Translator's Preface
In 1968 the Chinese Communist regime under Mao Zedong instigated one of the twentieth century's most sweeping movements of human upheaval. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76) resulted in a cataclysmic disruption of Chinese society and the relocation of millions of intellectuals, predominantly high-school and university students (zhiqing, "Educated Youth"), from the cities and towns to the countryside, where they were expected to settle for the rest of their lives, laboring alongside the peasants. Often dispatched thousands of miles to remote, impoverished areas on the borders or in the rural hinterland of China, they were confronted with languages and ways of life that were entirely alien. Han Shaogong, age sixteen in 1970, was sent to villages in northern Hunan (south China), to spend his life planting rice and tea.That life plan came to an end in 1976, along with the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong himself. Han returned
Название книги: A Dictionary of Maqiao
Автор(ы): Han Shaogong
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Dictionary-of-Maqiao-197149.html
Translated by Julia Lovell
Translator's Preface
In 1968 the Chinese Communist regime under Mao Zedong instigated one of the twentieth century's most sweeping movements of human upheaval. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76) resulted in a cataclysmic disruption of Chinese society and the relocation of millions of intellectuals, predominantly high-school and university students (zhiqing, "Educated Youth"), from the cities and towns to the countryside, where they were expected to settle for the rest of their lives, laboring alongside the peasants. Often dispatched thousands of miles to remote, impoverished areas on the borders or in the rural hinterland of China, they were confronted with languages and ways of life that were entirely alien. Han Shaogong, age sixteen in 1970, was sent to villages in northern Hunan (south China), to spend his life planting rice and tea.That life plan came to an end in 1976, along with the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong himself. Han returned
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