Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Sent-down youth in Xishuangbanna (1969–79)
On the Mao’s China map as “Xishuangbanna”
1969–79 — Tens of thousands of sent-down youth from Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing clear rainforest for rubber on army-run state farms in southern Yunnan. Hunger, hard labour and abuse by cadres led in 1978–79 to strikes and a petition to Beijing, after which most were allowed to go home.
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- Down to the Countryside Movement (chapter 10 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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