Lost in the Crowd: A Cultural Revolution MemoirFollwoing 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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