the Missing Generation

the long version

This book was written for the missing generation of 1960 and 1970, during which a lot of young people had been deprived of their right of education, employment, freedom of residence and not to mention free speech, even lovemaking. In the last stage of Cultural Revolution, in order to clean up the mess of political struggle, Mao Zedong sent the vast majority of students to the farmland to accept so-called re-education from poor peasants. Story about great escape to Hong Kong happened in Guangdong province.