Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace: China's Youth in the Rustication Movement

In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement. Based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts, the work examines the varied, and often perplexing, experiences of the seventeen million Chinese students sent to work in the countryside between 1953 and 1980. Rich in human drama, Pan's book illustrates how life in the countryside transformed the children of Mao from innocent, ignorant, yet often passionate, believers in the Communist Party into independent adults. Those same adults would lead the nationwide protests in the winter of 1978-79 that forced the government to abandon its policy of rustication. Richly textured, this work successfully blends biography with a wealth of historical insight to bring to life the trials of a generation, and to offer Chinese studies scholars a fascinating window into Mao Zedong's China.

History

Pan, Yihong

Asia

Lexington Books

<p>In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement. Based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts, the work examines the varied, and often perplexing, experiences of the seventeen million Chinese students sent to work in the countryside between 1953 and 1980. Rich in human drama, Pan's book illustrates how life in the countryside transformed the children of Mao from innocent, ignorant, yet often passionate, believers in the Communist Party into independent adults. Those same adults would lead the nationwide protests in the winter of 1978-79 that forced the government to abandon its policy of rustication. Richly textured, this work successfully blends biography with a wealth of historical insight to bring to life the trials of a generation, and to offer Chinese studies scholars a fascinating window into Mao Zedong's China.</p>

Not Just a Man’s War: Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

University of British Columbia Press

Not Just A Man's War

Vancouver : UBC Press

<p>From the Publisher\nThe pioneering comprehensive work in English on late medieval Chinese foreign policy. The newly united China of Sui and Tang times confronted and attempted to exert hegemony over the nomadic Turks, the Tibetans and Three Kingdoms Korea. Dr. Pan shows how Sui and Tang drew inspiration from the tributary system of ancient and early medieval China, but adapted it pragmatically to fit new situations as they arose. After the disaster of the An Lushan rebellion of the 750s, Tang had to conclude equal treaties with frontier nations and even pay subsidies to some of them. This anticipated the new situation in which China found itself after the collapse of Tang and Song's restoration of a smaller united empire. Dr. Pan's discussion of the primary and secondary sources should be useful to future researchers of China's intercourse with foreign countries in late medieval times.</p>

Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors

Center for East Asian Studies

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