Memory Lost and Revived: Zhang Chengzhi's Fictional Works on Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside

• Main Author: Liu, Jane Qian
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Zhang Chengzhi; sent-down youth; cultural memory; Rivers of the North; History of the Soul
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/10; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1913/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_2010_20Regular_20section_20__20Liu.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The experience of life as sent-down youth was often depicted as a poignant life journey in many contemporary Chinese literary works, the memory of which people tend to obliterate. However, in his earlier fictional works, particularly in Rivers of the North (1984), Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948) endeavors...