Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing

xii, 448 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-29203-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Exiled Pilgrims contains thirty-two personal accounts by people who, as teenagers, went to rural China in 1964 and 1965. Barred from high school or college by political discrimination, the authors left the cities for the countryside in hopes of redeeming their “original sin” while making a difference in rural China with their hard work, only to find out that their idealism was futile in a mundane world and absurd time. Thus their pilgrimage to an illusory utopia turned into a painful search for truth and a tough struggle to liberate themselves against enormous odds.
The book is the first and only collection of stories by members of a once marginalized and heretofore largely unheard-of group in contemporary China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deng, Peng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Peng Deng
Foreword
Michel Bonnin
Introduction
Peng Deng

Part I The Call of Mountains
Youth Training School in Chengdu
Tang Longqian
In Remembrance of Those Long-Gone Years
Han Xiu
The Road to Xinjiang
Dong Danan
Between Chongqing and Yunnan
He Ying
Boarding the Westbound 413
Jin Xiping
Friends in Southern Hunan
Zhang Jianfu
Tales of Camp Harmony
Wu Baichun

Part II An Illusive Utopia
Three “Higher Intellectuals” on Our Farm
Song Xiaotao
Behind the Clouds
Ren Zongjing
Grain “Looters”
Jiang Xuchu
Snow Leopard
Pang Tongmin
We Were Once All “Hukou Soldiers”
Li Zhonggong
Unlucky Émigré
Shi Ming
My Days in Well Pass
Ding Yumin
Sixth Aunt
Wang Yuanling
Lost Love in the Daba Mountains
Zhang Yiting

Part III On the Altar of the Revolution
Songs of October
Liu Changyi
Withered Youth
Li Zhongmei
The Choice between Life and Death
Ma Wenhua
Massacre in Nanjiang
Yang Xingquan
Born to Be Criminals
Zhang Mengjie
In Those Wintry Days
Zhou Bangxian
The Fortieth Anniversary of Wang Baiming’s Death
Zheng Wendou

Part IV The Long Journey Home
My Twelve Years as a Zhiqing
Wang Shiyan
Teacher Qin
Wang Lingfu
Ten Years in Dragon Spring
Wan Xiaonong
Self-Taught Doctor from the Mountains
Li Wei
My Dream of College
Jiang Shuling
Troublesome Personal Data Form
Xia Xianzheng
The Ordeal of Job Hunting
Zhao Minghe
Disability Certification
Li Suhua
The Long Way Home
Li Zisen
My Father
Deng Yuanshu

Appendixes
Appendix 1 Directive Concerning the Political Evaluation of High School and Middle School Students in Chongqing Municipality in 1964
Appendix 2 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Non-Special Fields of Study in Colleges
Appendix 3 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Secondary Schools

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Peng Deng, Ph.D. (1990), Washington State University, is Professor of History at High Point University. Among his many publications in English and Chinese are Private Education in Modern China (Praeger, 1997) and (Deng ed.) Wusheng de qunluo: wenge qian lao zhiqing huiyilu [Silent tribe: memoirs of pre-Cultural Revolution zhiqing, 3 vols.] (Chongqing Press, 2006 & 2009).