{"product_id":"banished-to-the-great-northern-ning-wang-9781501713187","title":"Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness: Political Exile and Re-Education in Mao's China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to \"re-education\" by the state.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao's campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ning Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501713183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501713187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2018","brand":"Ning Wang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48995853500671,"sku":"9781501713187","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/banished-to-the-great-northern-ning-wang-9781501713187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}