Mao’s Lost Children: Stories Of The Rusticated Youth Of China’s Cultural Revolution
Laura Maynard, Andrew Crisell, Professor Magnus Marsden and Maurizio Marinelli
This event launches a fascinating new collection of memoirs written by more than fifty Chinese who as young people during the rule of Mao Zedong were rusticated to Hainan Island to clear the jungle for rubber plantations. Their unique, first-hand insights into this turbulent period of China’s recent history are also a moving testimony to the indomitable nature of the human spirit.
Organised by The Centre for Life History & Life Writing Research ( Seminars Autumn Term 2015) and co-sponsored by the Sussex Asia Centre.
For more information, email a.loske@sussex.ac.uk or m.jolly@sussex.ac.uk. Centre for Life History & Life Writing Research, 01273-873585,http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr All seminars are free and wheelchair accessible.