LEADER 03389nam 22004573a 450 001 9910976777103321 005 20250203232509.0 010 $a9780892640102 010 $a0892640103 010 $a9780472901555 010 $a0472901559 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.19144 035 $a(CKB)37386270800041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)08ae2a28-8d90-400e-8537-b1a926778206 035 $a(OCoLC)1229844512 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937386270800041 100 $a20250203i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEducated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China$fMartin Singer 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aMichigan Monographs In Chinese Studies 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 $aMichigan Monographs In Chinese Studies 606 $aSocial Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General 615 7$aSocial Science 615 0$aSocial sciences. 700 $aSinger$b Martin$0646980 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910976777103321 996 $aEducated youth and the cultural revolution in China$91193474 997 $aUNINA