LEADER 03335nam 22004571n 450 001 9910477334103321 005 20250705110033.0 010 $a9780472127603 010 $a0472127608 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.19144 035 $a(CKB)4100000011421497 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.19144 035 $a(ODN)ODN0006091175 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011421497 100 $a19880715|1971|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEducated youth and the cultural revolution in China 210 $d2020 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d1971. 215 $a1 online resource (114 pages) 225 1 $aMichigan Monographs in Chinese Studies ;$vno. 10 311 08$a9780472038145 311 08$a0472038141 320 $aBibliography: pages 104-114. 330 $aThe Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful and dramatic involvement in Chinese affairs. It also gave them the opportunity to gain recognition as a viable and responsible part of the Chinese polity. In the end, these revolutionary youths were not successful in proving their reliability. Too "idealistic" to compromise with the bourgeois way, their sense of moral rectitude also made it impossible for them to submerge their factional differences with other revolutionary mass organizations to achieve unity and consolidate proletarian victories. Many young revolutionaries were bitterly disillusioned by their own failures and those of other segments of the Chinese population and by the assignment of recent graduates to labor in rural communes. Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China reconstructs the events of the Cultural Revolution as they affected young people. Martin Singer integrates material from a range of factors and effects, including the characteristics of this generation of youths, the roles Mao called them to play, their resentment against the older generation, their membership in mass organizations, the educational system in which they were placed, and their perception that their skills were underutilized. To most educated young people in China, Singer concludes, the Cultural Revolution represented a traumatic and irreversible loss of political innocence, made yet more tragic by its allegiance to the unsuccessful campaign of an old revolutionary to preserve his legacy from the inevitable storms of history. 410 0$aMichigan monographs in Chinese studies ;$vno. 10. 606 $aStudents$zChina 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government 615 0$aStudents 686 $aHIS000000$aSOC000000$aSOC008000$2bisacsh 700 $aSinger$b Martin$0646980 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477334103321 996 $aEducated youth and the cultural revolution in China$91193474 997 $aUNINA