Zhiqing means educated youth, and refers to urban youth who went to China’s countryside during the 1950s to reduce the difference in living standards between urban and rural areas. Mao Zedong
launched a mass movement to the same end in 1968, and Chinese of that generation have been called zhiqing ever since. Here a group of zhiqing living in Houston, Texas recount their experiences.
Among their topics are bathing in the river, seven souls lost in the Heilong River, my first day in Yang Village, caught in a blizzard, choosing the destination of a lifetime, to slaughter a
pig, and fish shadows and lasting love. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
