TY - GEN T1 - Banished to the great northern wilderness : political exile and re-education in Mao's China A1 - Wang, Ning, 1964- LA - English PP - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1007134345 AB - "This book illuminates the dark corners of life in Mao's China, forty years after the Paramount Leader's death. During the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, scholars, artists, journalists, and others whom the state considered suspicious "intellectuals" were targeted for "re-education." In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour camp archives, memoirs, and interviews to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of banished Chinese intellectuals. His use of these newly uncovered Chinese-language sources paints a vivid and nuanced picture that challenges our concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr."-- AB - "Wang examines the ways in which the state sought to re-educate the intellectuals at army farms and labour camps, and the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival. While banished intellectuals were victims of the campaign, some also became perpetrators of injustice themselves who betrayed their friends and comrades. Isolated in a desolate northern borderland and subject to physical and psychological abuse, the exiles often denounced each other and, for self-preservation, declared allegiance to the state. Including interviews with former "rightists" and even a camp guard, Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness shines a bright light on the exile communities, social conflicts, and history of the early PRC."-- CN - HD4875.C6 SN - 9781501714023 SN - 1501714023 SN - 9781501714016 SN - 1501714015 SN - 9780774832250 SN - 0774832258 SN - 9781501713187 SN - 1501713183 SN - 9780774832243 KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang : History : 20th century. KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang KW - Forced labor : China : Manchuria : History : 20th century. KW - Labor camps : China : Manchuria : History : 20th century. KW - Political persecution : China : Beijing : History : 20th century. KW - Intellectuals : China : Beijing : History : 20th century. KW - Exiles : China : Manchuria : History : 20th century. KW - Manchuria (China) : History : 20th century. KW - China : History : 1949-1976. KW - Travail forcé : Chine : Mandchourie : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Abris pour travailleurs : Chine : Mandchourie : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Répression politique : Chine : Pékin : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Intellectuels : Chine : Pékin : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Mandchourie (Chine) : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Chine : Histoire : 1949-1976. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Penology. KW - Exiles KW - Forced labor KW - Intellectuals KW - Labor camps KW - Political persecution KW - China KW - China : Beijing KW - China : Manchuria KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -