Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

History

Singer, Martin

Asia

U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

<p><div>The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful and dramatic involvement in Chinese affairs. It also gave them the opportunity to gain recognition as a viable and responsible part of the Chinese polity. In the end, these revolutionary youths were not successful in proving their reliability. Too "idealistic" to compromise with the bourgeois way, their sense of moral rectitude also made it impossible for them to submerge their factional differences with other revolutionary mass organizations to achieve unity and consolidate proletarian victories. Many young revolutionaries were bitterly disillusioned by their own failures and those of other segments of the Chinese population and by the assignment of recent graduates to labor in rural communes.</div> <div><i>Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China</i> reconstructs the events of the Cultural Revolution as they affected young people. Martin Singer integrates material from a range of factors and effects, including the characteristics of this generation of youths, the roles Mao called them to play, their resentment against the older generation, their membership in mass organizations, the educational system in which they were placed, and their perception that their skills were underutilized. To most educated young people in China, Singer concludes, the Cultural Revolution represented a traumatic and irreversible loss of political innocence, made yet more tragic by its allegiance to the unsuccessful campaign of an old revolutionary to preserve his legacy from the inevitable storms of history.</div></p>

Educated Youth and the Cultural Revolution in China (Volume 10) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Gravity Gone

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Martin Singer

<p><p>A fusion accident in 1977 creates unusual stones eventually acquired by a bright young man, Ray Holland. Many years later a mysterious levitation event, which directly involve the stones challenges Ray to create a device called GG-1. He with his soon to be wife Tessa pool their resources and begin an adventure in unraveling the undetermined power of the stones. To complicate matters, two FBI agents start poking around under inscrutable circumstances. The agents soon encounter a Russian man who has comparable interests in the Hollands. Two specific testing events of the GG-1 device go beyond expectation, leading to unwanted attention. Eventually the Russian man is able to steal one of Rays' experimental devices, determined to force Ray to show him it's capabilities. In time they meet up, Ray must provide all the answers, but matters come to a dramatic conclusion. Come join in this adventure of science, mystery, murder, and investigation with Ray and Tessa.</p></p>

Gravity Gone: The Stone Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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