Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation

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Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation
By Helen F. Siu, Zelda Stern
  



Publisher:  Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:  288
Publication Date:  1985-04-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0195034996
ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780195034998


Product Description:

This volume is one of the first collections to reach the West of the stories, essays, and poems published by writers of the \"Mao Generation\"--the first generation of Chinese to grow up under socialism. Drawn from both official Chinese literary journals and underground magazines, these previously untranslated stories provide a fascinating portrait of China in the seventies.




Summary: An interesting glimpse at the New Realism movement
Rating: 4

In Mao's Harvest (1983), Helen Siu and Zelda Stern have gathered a collection of poems, stories, and essays from the New Realism literary movement in China. The authors of these works are part of the so-called \"Mao Generation.\" Born in the 1940s, their entire lives have been affected by Mao's politics and policies. Mao's rule over China was highly ideological in its purported celebration of the masses and their labor, but the ninety percent of the population that was not directly affiliated with the CCP struggled to live any kind of prosperous life, let alone one that was not marred by poverty. As a result, the writers of the Mao Generation in Mao's Harvest express a deep disillusionment with the Chinese political system.

Their surprisingly candid works are from 1979-1981, a period which Siu and Stern describe as \"a thaw in which the usual political controls on writers were relaxed...\" Thus most of the writing took place only three years after Mao died and the Gang of Four was arrested, an event which many historians consider marks the end of the Cultural Revolution. The excellent introduction to Mao's Harvest discusses the Cultural Revolution and its effects on Chinese youth at great length. Siu and Stern believe that the it created deep divisions between communities, families, and individuals, and that it epitomized the debilitating effects of Maoism not just on a person's economic or educational well being, but on their relationships to others and their views of the world. Ultimately Siu and Stern think that the New Realism movement of 1979-1981 reflects the disappointment, anger, confusion, and search for meaning that occurred among hundreds of millions of Chinese young people who lived under Mao's policies and the authoritarian structure of the CCP.

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