Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness : political exile and re-education in Mao's China
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Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness : political exile and re-education in Mao's China
(Cornell paperbacks)
Cornell University Press, 2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
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"First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao's campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Anti-Rightist Campaign and Political Labelling
2. Beijing Rightists on the Army Farms of Beidahuang
3. Political Offenders in Xingkaihu Labour Camp
4. Life and Death in Beidahuang
5. Inner Turmoil and Internecine Strife among Political Exiles
6. End without End
Conclusion
Appendix A: Interview List
Appendix B: Note on the Sources and Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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