Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing
Exiled pilgrims: memoirs of pre-cultural revolution zhiqing. Edited by Peng Deng. Introduction by Michel Bonnin. Leiden : Brill, 2015. XII-448 p. ISBN : 9789004292031.
Exiled Pilgrims contains thirty-two personal accounts by people who, as teenagers, went to rural China in 1964 and 1965. Barred from high school or college by political discrimination, the authors left the cities for the countryside in hopes of redeeming their “original sin” while making a difference in rural China with their hard work, only to find out that their idealism was futile in a mundane world and absurd time. Thus their pilgrimage to an illusory utopia turned into a painful search for truth and a tough struggle to liberate themselves against enormous odds.
The book is the first and only collection of stories by members of a once marginalized and heretofore largely unheard-of group in contemporary China.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (26 mars 2015). Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing. Carnets du Centre Chine (CNRS/EHESS). Consulté le 15 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mf2u


