Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China / Martin Singer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910418345503321
• Autore: Singer Martin <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, , 1971; ©1971
• ISBN: 0-89264-010-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (114 pages) : digital file(s)
• Collana: Michigan papers in Chinese studies ; ; no. 10
• Disciplina: 378.1/98/0951
• Soggetti: Students - China; Electronic books.; China Politics and government 1949-1976
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 104-114.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- Mao Tse-tung -- Mao Tse-tung and the Youth of China -- The State of Youth -- Abbreviations Used in Text and Bibliography -- II. The Cultural Revolution: 1966 -- Peking University -- National Movement for Educational Reform -- Leadership Support for Revolutionary Students -- Early Mass Rallies and Movements -- Recreating the Long March -- Attempts to Disperse Students -- Invocation of the Tradition of the PLA -- Student Relations with Workers and Peasants -- III. The Cultural Revolution: 1967 -- Attacks on Egoism -- Attempts to Control Violence -- The Three-Way Alliance -- Attempts to Resume Classes: I -- Responses to Changed Situations -- Attempts to Resume Classes: II -- Shift to the Left -- April -- Factionalism and Violent Struggle -- Attempts to Resume Classes: III -- The Wuhan Incident -- Support the PLA -- Crackdown on Young People -- Attempts to Resume Classes: IV -- Sheng Wu-lien -- IV. The Cultural Revolution: 1968 -- Factionalism in Canton: I -- Nod to the Left -- Factionalism in Cantonr II -- Factionalism in Wuchow -- Attempts to Resume Classes: V -- Job Assignments -- Violent Struggle -- Anti-lhtellectualism and Propaganda Teams -- Consolidation of Workers' Teams' Positions -- Downgrading of Pure Intellect -- V. Educated Youth in Perspective -- Characteristics -- Roles -- Resentment against the Older Generation -- ; Membership in Mass Organizations -- The Educational System -- Underutilization of Skills of Young People -- Footnotes -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.