Sent-down youth
Youth forced to work in the countryside during China's cultural revolution / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Educated youth" redirects here. For Ye Xin's novel, see Educated Youth (novel).
The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (Chinese: 知識青年), also known as the zhiqing, were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the People's Republic of China to live and work in rural areas as part of the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement".[1][2]
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Educated Youth | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 知識青年 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 知识青年 | ||||||
Literal meaning | intellectual youth | ||||||
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Zhiqing | |||||||
Chinese | 知青 | ||||||
Literal meaning | [contraction] | ||||||
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Sent-down Youth | |||||||
Chinese | 下放青年 | ||||||
Literal meaning | demoted youth | ||||||
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The vast majority of young people who went to the rural communities had received elementary to high school education, and only a small minority had matriculated to the post-secondary or university level.[3]