CHAIRPERSON
Dr Marco Garrido, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
ABSTRACT
This paper contributes to the literature on the biographical legacy of China’s rustication program — a social mobilization, sending urban school graduates to rural communities and remote frontiers between 1966 and 1980. Although most of the rusticates managed to return to their urban homes at the end of the program, this drastic episode disrupted their life transitions and ill-prepared them for the forthcoming economic transformation. Based on coming-of-age stories and reviews of the past shared by the former rusticates in their late 50s and early 60s with whom I conducted interviews, this study aims to explore the long-lasting impact of the program; in which ways it has affected the lives of the rusticates, and whether its significance in life differs by the exposure time to the rustication as well as by their post-rustication experiences.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Qianhan Lin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Changing Family in Asia research cluster of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She received her B.Sc. in Operational Research from the University College London, M.Sc. in Applied Statistics and D.Phil. in sociology from the University of Oxford. Her current research interests are life careers, social stratification, China’s rustication movement, transitions to adulthood and time use research in East Asian societies.
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