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Song’s woodcut depicts an older peasant walking arm-in-arm
with a young intellectual youth. They are returning from a conference
on Mao’s Colleted Works held for activists. Both wear buttons commemorating
the event. Song illustrates the close relationship between the urban
intellectual youth “sent down” to the countryside and the
rural peasants of Shaanxi. The government sent youth to the countryside
in the early 1960s to be rusticated and promote Mao’s socialist
ideology. A second wave of “sent down” youth occurred in
1969 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. |
