A Dictionary of Maqiao

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Translator's Preface
In 1968 the Chinese Communist regime under Mao Zedong instigated one of the
twentieth century's most sweeping movements of human upheaval. The Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) resulted in a cataclysmic disruption of Chinese society and the
relocation of millions of intellectuals, predominantly high-school and university students
(zhiqing, "Educated Youth"), from the cities and towns to the countryside, where they were
expected to settle for the rest of their lives, laboring alongside the peasants. Often dispatched
thousands of miles to remote, impoverished areas on the borders or in the rural hinterland of
China, they were confronted with languages and ways of life that were entirely alien. Han
Shaogong, age sixteen in 1970, was sent to villages in northern Hunan (south China), to spend
his life planting rice and tea.
That life plan came to an end in 1976, along with the Cultural Revolution and Mao
Zedong himself. Han re

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