I bought this book last year, but my busy life and all kinds of trivial things always make it impossible for me to calm down and read it. It was only recently that I finally found the time to read this book, and it scared me out of a cold sweat......
There's magic in this book, and it's a great way to keep reading. As soon as I picked it up, I didn't want to put it down.
The title of the book, The Lost Generation, China's Movement to the Mountains and Countryside 1968-1980 Hemingway went to Europe to participate in the First World War, although the First World War did not last long, only a few years, but the alienation of people by war has accompanied many people's lives, many people died in the war, and many people were lucky enough to survive, but they suffered from severe PTSD, a French friend of Hemingway said to him: "You young people who have gone to war, you are the lost generation." ”
The Lost Generation, also known as the "Lost Generation", experienced the Vietnam War and Watergate, and countless Americans were disillusioned with the "American Dream". As a result, young people in the United States replace their faith with loss, and fight against the "reality of great light" with defeat, but they do not know what the future holds, and they are a confused generation.
Although China is thousands of miles away from Europe, there is also a "lost generation" in the East, that is, those young people who go to the mountains and go to the countryside. On the title page of the book, there is a particularly good little poem, written by Shu Ting: "But I stood up / on the broad horizon / No one, no means / can push me down again".
That era has passed, but if there is no collective reflection, only covering up and indifference, who can guarantee that the "invisible hand" will not reappear and push down one "me" after another?
We have forgotten too much about that era, and our modern thinking can start by reading this book.
From 1968 to 1980, a massive movement swept across China, pushing many urban intellectuals into the countryside and mountainous areas, where they experienced hard life and labor. This movement not only changed the trajectory of the fate of 17 million intellectual youth, but also gave birth to the glorious and short-lived 80s to some extent. This historical event had a profound impact on Chinese society and indirectly affected the direction of China.
However, due to various reasons, this movement has been slowly forgotten by many people, even though many of the people who experienced it are our parents and are still alive in the world, but this movement is in a state of sealing and forgetting. Many young people who don't know much about this matter even think that someone is deliberately stigmatizing the movement, or that the facts are exaggerated and processed with ulterior motives.
It's not fair, is it?
The movement is a unique milestone in China's modern history, which not only carries the youthful memories of a generation, but also the key to reflecting on the "road that has been traveled". It is like a mirror, reflecting the changes of that era, and also reflecting the dreams and pursuits of a generation. However, despite the importance of this history, it has not been fully and deeply excavated and displayed due to various reasons. There has always been a lack of a truly all-round and multi-angle restoration of this "movement" on the market.
However, this regret was finally remedied after the publication of the book "The Lost Generation: China's Movement to the Mountains and Countryside 1968-1980".
The author of this book is the famous French sinologist Mr. Pan Mingxiao, although he is an outsider and not very well-known, but he is an expert in the movement to the countryside, most of his academic career is related to this movement, he has spent 30 years studying this movement, understanding the fate of the educated youth, and these research results are all recorded in this book.
The author has included a large number of first-hand information and words of intellectuals, as well as many first-hand interviews that intellectuals are unwilling to talk about or even will never tell.
The origins of this movement seem difficult to understand today, but if we follow the author's brushstrokes and return to the context of those years, we can find that this is the most rational decision made under various plans and trade-offs. The book not only includes the evaluation of the movement by different target groups, but also clarifies the motives and methods of the movement from the economic, demographic, political, and ideological dimensions, as well as the various imprints before and after the movement, so this book can be called the authoritative work with the most sufficient historical data, the most extensive discussion, and the most in-depth analysis.
It should be noted that this book is by no means conclusive for the movement, if we have to find out what the author has written down that cannot be doubted, that is, the lost memory of a generation of Chinese people who have given the greatest enthusiasm.
At this moment when people are curious about the "spirit of educated youth", we undoubtedly need to retrieve this memory more comprehensively and understand its whole picture more thoroughly. ..... For various reasons, this book is out of sale through multiple channels, which undoubtedly makes many people feel sorry, and we know the value of this book, and we have collected and sorted out a small number of last stocks, and now go to Douyin to search for "summer insects want to drink ice", click on the window after attention, search for this book, and you can collect it with one click.