to anyone having a sent down girl

[Shenzhen K-1]

at Amazon

 

Directed by Joan Chen from an award-winning novella banned in China because of political and sexual content, "Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl" is a powerful love story. Between 1967 and 1976, nearly 8 million Chinese youths were "sent down" for specialized training to the remotest corners of the country. Before being sent down, the young and beautiful Xiu Xiu dreams of becoming a horse trainer in the wide open plains of Tibet, far away from her busy city home. Her journey begins in a training camp in the isolated plains with a solitary and mysterious man. Slowly, Xiu Xiu discovers that she is unlikely to ever see her home again without a wealthy sponsor. Her world becomes a horrifying cage, where "patrons" promise her escape in exchange for her sexual compromise. This is one girl's story and a compassionate deed that inspired one special man and everyone who hears her tale.

 

Thanks for the link, would like to see it!!

[el1090]

at Amazon

 

Directed by Joan Chen from an award-winning novella banned in China because of political and sexual content, "Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl" is a powerful love story. Between 1967 and 1976, nearly 8 million Chinese youths were "sent down" for specialized training to the remotest corners of the country. Before being sent down, the young and beautiful Xiu Xiu dreams of becoming a horse trainer in the wide open plains of Tibet, far away from her busy city home. Her journey begins in a training camp in the isolated plains with a solitary and mysterious man. Slowly, Xiu Xiu discovers that she is unlikely to ever see her home again without a wealthy sponsor. Her world becomes a horrifying cage, where "patrons" promise her escape in exchange for her sexual compromise. This is one girl's story and a compassionate deed that inspired one special man and everyone who hears her tale.

 

Thanks for the link, would like to see it!!

 

this movie has a very tragic end. so it is not for everyone. i could not help but cry for these two victims of the circumstances handed them by the lives that they had to endure.

[lostinblue]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031215691...9035831-1314823

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-08...p;x=13&y=15

Here are some other books that cover this time period as well. Wild Swans ....another good read. Yan Has met someone here that was sent down for 10 years near the korean border. What a waste of talent. . They call this the lost generation. Because your wife went through this maybe some issues will come up while you are living together. Just be aware and open minded about some of her decisions. I know someone who was very poor in china while growing up and now her husband is well to do here in the states. She has a mindset that she may return to that time period.

[Randy W]

at Amazon

 

Directed by Joan Chen from an award-winning novella banned in China because of political and sexual content, "Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl" is a powerful love story. Between 1967 and 1976, nearly 8 million Chinese youths were "sent down" for specialized training to the remotest corners of the country. Before being sent down, the young and beautiful Xiu Xiu dreams of becoming a horse trainer in the wide open plains of Tibet, far away from her busy city home. Her journey begins in a training camp in the isolated plains with a solitary and mysterious man. Slowly, Xiu Xiu discovers that she is unlikely to ever see her home again without a wealthy sponsor. Her world becomes a horrifying cage, where "patrons" promise her escape in exchange for her sexual compromise. This is one girl's story and a compassionate deed that inspired one special man and everyone who hears her tale.

 

 

 

revisited by Xi Jinping, himself a member of the "sent-down youth"

 

 

China's Xi Jinping causes alarm with mass student trips to the country

Analysis by Steven Jiang, CNN

 

Updated 9:11 PM ET, Sat May 4, 2019

 

 

The ruling Communist Party's Youth League detailed plans in late March for 10 million volunteering trips for China's urban youth to the countryside in the next three years.

Under the guideline, university and vocational school students will be expected to spend their summer vacations participating in technological, medical and cultural development in impoverished villages nationwide to deepen a "rural rejuvenation" championed by President Xi Jinping.

While the scheme is supposed to be voluntary, given Xi's personal endorsement of the plan it is likely to be seen as compulsory for many university students keen to advance in the party and the government.

Up to 100,000 young migrant laborers will also be encouraged to return to their rural hometowns by 2022 for work, including starting their own businesses with the help of "youth entrepreneur organizations," set up by local authorities.

. . .

Zhang Lifan, a prominent Beijing-based independent scholar of modern Chinese history, said Xi is under mounting pressure from urban unemployment amid a markedly slowing economy, just as Mao was decades earlier when his failed economic policies meant there weren't enough city jobs to accommodate graduating students and returning veterans.

"There has been a 'social purification' drive aimed at preventing the overpopulation of migrants and unemployed youth in the cities," he said. "These are elements of social instability in the minds of the authorities -- they 'sent down' the youth back then and they probably have the same mentality now."

Notably, President Xi -- himself a member of the "sent-down youth" -- has depicted his time in rural central China as a rewarding, life-changing experience that toughened his body and mind. The entire village where the leader once lived has been turned into a Communist shrine dedicated to him, attracting officials and tourists from across the country.

"He seems to want others to emulate his successful experience in the countryside," said analyst Zhang, voicing his doubts that the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao would roll back the initiative because of the backlash. "His personality means the stronger the opposition, the more determined he is."

 

 

This is the entire movie, now on YouTube.

 

https://youtu.be/2JQv17SUnJQ

 

1998 Xiu Xiu The Sent Down Girl

 

The Chinese name is 天浴 （Tian Yu)

[Allon]

Red Azaleas by Anchee Min. Her first book. Joan Chen helped her immigrate to America. Similar except an earlier setting in Mao's collective camps. True story. She was an actor in the operas Mao's wife put together.

 

Want a really mind blowing movie, see Marco Polo on Netflix now. Now there is the life of a concubine.....portrayed by the same woman (Olivia Cheng) who was in Broken Trail (and others). Being sent down then had different consequences.....