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Educated Youth (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Duringthe Cultural Revolution over 14 million Chinese high school graduates were sentfrom the cities to live and work in the countryside. They were known as zhiqing 'educated youth'. They fell inlove, married, had children. In the late 1970s the policy changed and they wereallowed to return, but not their families. Many jumped at the opportunity,leaving spouses and children behind. Ten years later the children, nowteenagers, began to turn up in the cities, looking for their parents. Educated Youth follows five such children,who have travelled across China from a province in the south west to Shanghaiin the east, only to discover that their mothers and fathers have remarried, andhave new families, in which there is no room for them. Their reappearance bringsout the worst in the parents their duplicity, greed and self-interest andthe best too, as they struggle to come to terms with their sense of love andduty. During the Cultural Revolution over 14 million Chinese high school graduates were sent from the cities to live and work in the countryside. They were known as zhiqing Educated Youth Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781925336047

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