Book contents
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Winners’ Stories
- 2 Unequal Memories
- 3 The Wasted Years and a Land of Wonder
- 4 Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!
- 5 Nostalgia, Resistance, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 6 “Comrades from Five Lakes and Four Seas!”
- Conclusion
- Appendix Methods and Data
- References
- Index
1 - Winners’ Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
Book contents
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Winners’ Stories
- 2 Unequal Memories
- 3 The Wasted Years and a Land of Wonder
- 4 Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!
- 5 Nostalgia, Resistance, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 6 “Comrades from Five Lakes and Four Seas!”
- Conclusion
- Appendix Methods and Data
- References
- Index
Summary
In Chapters 1 and 2, I use qualitative and quantitative analyses of the life history interviews with the zhiqing to describe and explain various patterns of their autobiographical memory. Their autobiographical memory varies greatly, and the variation can be explained by “class,” including their present class positions and their chushen and habitus formed in the Mao years. Chapter 1 focuses on those zhiqing with higher class positions today.
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- Chairman Mao's ChildrenGeneration and the Politics of Memory in China, pp. 40 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021