Source 3: Revolutionary Youth Songs, 1968 Source 4: Star Reflects on the Sun: Memoir by Liu Xiaoqing Source 5: Firsthand accounts of “sent-down” generation, 1990s. Source 6: Edited from Azalea” by Anchee “Red Min, Harper’s Magazine, February, 1994 Read the following and: Circle information that helps you to understand the context (time period the source was created). Underline information that helps you to understand the subtext (information about the author/author’s purpose for creating the source) Take (to the left of the source) on what the source indicates why if the participants in the Chinese Cultural Revolution willing participants or blind followers? Source 5: Firsthand accounts of generation: Interview #1 (Lu Xin) “sent-down” Background Information: These are oral histories of the time period taken 20 years after the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution. All of the interviews were with Chinese students that participated in the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement. In 1968, I went to Heilongjiang province. I could have waited another year, but I was Interview #1: determined to go to the countryside, and wanted to leave as soon as possible. My eldest brother was one of those idealistic students who left to serve peasants in Xinjiang province before the Cultural Revolution began. When he got tuberculosis, he had to return to Shanghai for treatment. After he recovered, he persuaded several unemployed young people from our neighborhood to return to Xinjiang with him. He was a great influence on me. I thought I was going to change the backwardness of our countryside and transform the whole world. I was, of course, very innocent . . . When millions of educated young people moved to the countryside, they did begin to stimulate some
Source 3: Revolutionary Youth Songs, 1968 Source 4: Star Reflects on the Sun: Memoir by Liu Xiaoqing Source 5: Firsthand accounts of “sent-down” generation, 1990s. Source 6: Edited from “Red Azalea” by Anchee Min, Harper’s Magazine, February, 1994 Read the following and: Circle information that helps you to understand the context (time period the source was created). Underline information that helps you to understand the subtext (information about the author/author’s purpose for creating the source) Take (to the left of the source) on what the source indicates why if the participants in the Chinese Cultural Revolution willing participants or blind followers? Source 5: Firsthand accounts of “sent-down” generation: Interview #1 (Lu Xin) Background Information: These are oral histories of the time period taken 20 years after the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution. All of the interviews were with Chinese students that participated in the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement. Interview #1: In 1968, I went to Heilongjiang province. I could have waited another year, but I was determined to go to the countryside, and wanted to leave as soon as possible. My eldest brother was one of those idealistic students who left to serve peasants in Xinjiang province before the Cultural Revolution began. When he got tuberculosis, he had to return to Shanghai for treatment. After he recovered, he persuaded several unemployed young people from our neighborhood to return to Xinjiang with him. He was a great influence on me. I thought I was going to change the backwardness of our countryside and transform the whole world. I was, of course, very innocent . . . When millions of educated young people moved to the countryside, they did begin to stimulate some
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