Lost in the Crowd: A Cultural Revolution Memoir

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McPhee Gribble, 1989 - Political Science - 133 pages
Follwoing Mao Zedong's 'May 7 Directive' of 1966, it became a crime to be educated in China. Over twenty million of China's professional and university scholars were exiled to remote rural cadre schools for 're-education.' This is the personal chronical of an elderly scholar who was condemned as a 'Bourgeois Intellectual' during China's Cultural Revolution where professors cleaned toilets and teenage 'Proletariat' terrorized at will.

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Contents

A Foreword
3
THE TEMPEST
13
TOPSYTURVY
24
Copyright

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About the author (1989)

Yang Jiang was born in Beijing, China on July 17, 1911. She studied political science at Soochow University and later enrolled at Tsinghua University in Beijing. After marrying Qian Zhongshu in 1935, they moved to England and then Paris. They moved back to China in 1938. In the 1940s, Yang Jiang found success as a playwright in wartime Shanghai with a series of witty comedies. After the Communists took power in 1949, the couple moved to Beijing, where she taught and worked on translation projects. During the Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were sent to the countryside in Henan Province and consigned to reform through labor. They remained in Henan for several years. Her memoir about these years, Six Chapters from My Life "Downunder," was published in 1981. Her other works include Baptism and We Three. She translated Don Quixote and Plato's Phaedo. She died on May 25, 2016 at the age of 104.

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TitleLost in the Crowd: A Cultural Revolution Memoir
AuthorJiang Yang
PublisherMcPhee Gribble, 1989
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedNov 29, 2007
ISBN0869140973, 9780869140970
Length133 pages
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