Exiled Pilgrims : Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Call of Mountains -- Youth Training School in Chengdu -- In Remembrance of Those Long-Gone Years -- The Road to Xinjiang -- Between Chongqing and Yunnan -- Boarding the Westbound 413 -- Friends in Southern Hunan -- Tales of Camp Harmony -- Part 2 An Illusive Utopia -- Three "Higher Intellectuals" on Our Farm -- Behind the Clouds -- Grain "Looters" -- Snow Leopard -- We Were Once All "Hukou Soldiers" -- Unlucky Émigré -- My Days in Well Pass -- Sixth Aunt -- Lost Love in the Daba Mountains -- Photo Section -- Part 3 On the Altar of the Revolution -- Songs of October -- Withered Youth -- The Choice between Life and Death -- Massacre in Nanjiang -- Born to Be Criminals -- In Those Wintry Days -- The Fortieth Anniversary of Wang Baiming's Death -- Part 4 The Long Journey Home -- My Twelve Years as a Zhiqing -- Teacher Qin -- Ten Years in Dragon Spring -- Self-Taught Doctor from the Mountains -- My Dream of College -- Troublesome Personal Data Form -- The Ordeal of Job Hunting -- Disability Certification -- The Long Way Home -- My Father -- Appendices Education Bureau of Chongqing Municipality Document -- Appendix 1 Directive Concerning the Political Evaluation of High School and Middle School Students in Chongqing Municipality in 1964 -- Appendix 2 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Non-Special Fields of Study in Colleges (Revised in 1962, not to be publicized) -- Appendix 3 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Secondary Schools -- Glossary -- Index.

Written by people who, as second class citizens in Maoist China, went to the countryside to redeem their "original sin," Exiled Pilgrims tells the story of the authors' struggle for physical and spiritual survival against tremendous odds.

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