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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bonnin, Michel

Titel

Restricted, Distorted but Alive: The Memory of the “Lost Generation” of Chinese Educated Youth

Ist Teil von

• The China quarterly (London), 2016-09, Vol.227 (227), p.752-772

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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• During the 1980s, the immediate memory of the Maoist rustication movement expressed itself almost exclusively through the vector of literature, but since 1990, for reasons worth reflecting upon, a wide range of memorial activities have developed, involving a large number of the former educated youth (zhiqing). In the 2000s, this field benefited from the generalization of the internet and is still very much alive today. At each stage, this mainly popular or unofficial (minjian) memory had to negotiate a breathing space with a party-state still intent on controlling history and collective memory, especially concerning any topic directly linked with the Cultural Revolution. Thus, if memories of an important event are always varied because of the different personal experiences of the past and different individual situations and aspirations in the present, the spectrum of the zhiqing memories has also been complicated by political considerations. This paper does not try to present an exhaustive picture of this large memorial field; instead, through different examples, it attempts to reflect upon the meaning of the strong memorial aspirations of the zhiqing. It argues that only a genuine respect for history (as shown in the remarkable endeavours of some former zhiqing) will help this generation to transcend the conflict of memories to find meaning in its own fate. 在 1980 年代, 毛泽东发动的上山下乡运动的记忆基本上只是在文学中才有所表达。但有一件事值得我们反思: 自 1990 年起, 各种记忆活动开始出现, 涉及的前知青数目也相当大。在 2000 年代, 记忆活动因互联网的普及化更有所发展, 到现在还是非常活跃。这个记忆主要是民间记忆, 在各阶段需要与一直有意控制历史和集体记忆的党国争取一个呼吸空间。有关文革的议题特别难以取得官方的容忍。所以, 知青记忆的全景图不但因过去的经历和现在的状况与愿望不同而多元化, 还因各种政治顾虑而复杂化。本文没有提供这个广大的记忆领域的全景图的奢望目标, 只是通过不同的例子来反思知青保存记忆的强大愿望的意义。文章强调只有在真正尊重历史的情况下, 这代人才能超越不同记忆的冲突, 而找到自己命运中的意义。在这方面, 一些知青已经有不可忽略的贡献。