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The Lost Generation is a vital component to an understanding of Maoism. Bonnin provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young ""educated"" city dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. Bonnin closely examines the Chinese leadership's motivations and the methods that it used over time to implement its objectives, as well as the day-to-day lives of those young people in the countryside, their difficulties, their doubts, their resistance, and, ultimately, their revolt. The author draws on a rich and diverse array of sources, concluding with a comprehensive assessment of the movement that shaped an entire generation, including a majority of today's cultural, economic, and political elite.

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Highly impressive. His book will become the standard reference on the rustication movement... Essential.--CHOICE

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Michel Bonnin is Professor at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France. From 1991 to 1998 he was the director of the French Research Centre on Contemporary China and editor-in-chief of China Perspectives, both of which he founded in Hong Kong. His primary areas of research are the social and political issues in the People’s Republic of China. Bonnin has written extensively in French, English, and Chinese on the rustication movement of educated urban youth during the Maoist period.

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