Exiled Pilgrims

Peng Deng, Ph.D. (1990), Washington State University, is Professor of History at High Point University. Among his many publications in English and Chinese are Private Education in Modern China (Praeger, 1997) and (Deng ed.) Wusheng de qunluo: wenge qian lao zhiqing huiyilu [Silent tribe: memoirs of pre-Cultural Revolution zhiqing, 3 vols.] (Chongqing Press, 2006 & 2009).

• AcknowledgementsPeng DengForewordMichel BonninIntroduction Peng DengPart I The Call of MountainsYouth Training School in ChengduTang LongqianIn Remembrance of Those Long-Gone YearsHan XiuThe Road to XinjiangDong DananBetween Chongqing and YunnanHe YingBoarding the Westbound 413Jin XipingFriends in Southern HunanZhang JianfuTales of Camp HarmonyWu BaichunPart IIAn Illusive UtopiaThree “Higher Intellectuals” on Our FarmSong XiaotaoBehind the CloudsRen ZongjingGrain “Looters”Jiang XuchuSnow LeopardPang TongminWe Were Once All “Hukou Soldiers”Li ZhonggongUnlucky ÉmigréShi MingMy Days in Well PassDing YuminSixth AuntWang YuanlingLost Love in the Daba MountainsZhang YitingPart III On the Altar of the RevolutionSongs of OctoberLiu ChangyiWithered YouthLi ZhongmeiThe Choice between Life and DeathMa WenhuaMassacre in NanjiangYang XingquanBorn to Be CriminalsZhang MengjieIn Those Wintry DaysZhou BangxianThe Fortieth Anniversary of Wang Baiming’s DeathZheng WendouPart IV The Long Journey HomeMy Twelve Years as a ZhiqingWang ShiyanTeacher QinWang LingfuTen Years in Dragon SpringWan XiaonongSelf-Taught Doctor from the MountainsLi WeiMy Dream of CollegeJiang ShulingTroublesome Personal Data FormXia XianzhengThe Ordeal of Job HuntingZhao MingheDisability CertificationLi SuhuaThe Long Way HomeLi ZisenMy FatherDeng YuanshuAppendixesAppendix 1Directive Concerning the Political Evaluation of High School and Middle School Students in Chongqing Municipality in 1964Appendix 2Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Non-Special Fields of Study in CollegesAppendix 3Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Secondary SchoolsGlossary

"...in his book, Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing, Peng Deng, a zhiqing-turned historian in the United States, provides us with touching stories that unveil the experience of 1.3 million youths who went to rural China before the Cultural Revolution thereby rescuing a crucial component of the history of Shangshanxiaxiang (上山下乡/Sending-down or Rustication Campaign) from public oblivion. [...] Deng's Exiled Pilgrims, with original zhiqing narratives, stands out in telling honest truth. [...] Exiled Pilgrims contains precious primary source materials for students of the history of contemporary China before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution. It is also a great reference book for the studies of gender and Chinese society, if students look closely into the different destinies and distinct personal feelings of male and female zhiqing in the stories."Qian Liu, American Review of Chinese Studies, volume 18, no. 1 (Spring 2017)