Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement

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Cultural Revolution campaign mass movement political campaign

The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement was a Cultural Revolution-era campaign in which millions of urban Chinese youths were sent to rural areas to work and be “re-educated” by peasants, profoundly shaping a generation’s lives and China’s social landscape.

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Label	Occurrences
Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement canonical	1
up to the mountains and down to the countryside	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cultural Revolution campaign ⓘ mass movement ⓘ political campaign ⓘ
aim	to alleviate urban unemployment ⓘ to have youth be re-educated by peasants ⓘ to promote Maoist ideology in the countryside ⓘ to reduce political unrest in cities ⓘ to send urban youth to rural areas ⓘ
appliesToDemographic	zhiqing ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
description	a campaign that relocated urban educated youth to rural and border regions ⓘ
effect	creation of a distinct sent-down youth generation identity ⓘ disruption of education for a generation of Chinese youth ⓘ family separations ⓘ labor contribution to rural production ⓘ long-term psychological impact on sent-down youth ⓘ social mobility constraints for urban youth ⓘ strengthening of state control over youth ⓘ
endedBy	Deng Xiaoping-era reforms ⓘ post-Mao leadership ⓘ
endTime	around 1978 ⓘ late 1970s ⓘ
hasCause	Cultural Revolution ⓘ Maoist ideology of learning from peasants ⓘ political radicalization of students ⓘ urban unemployment among youth ⓘ
implementedIn	Heilongjiang ⓘ Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ⓘ surface form: Inner Mongolia Yunnan Province ⓘ surface form: Yunnan frontier regions such as Xinjiang ⓘ rural communes ⓘ
initiatedBy	Mao Zedong ⓘ
legacy	important episode in modern Chinese social history ⓘ major theme in Chinese memoirs and literature ⓘ subject of extensive scholarly research ⓘ
location	China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China
numberOfParticipants	millions of youths ⓘ over 10 million urban youths ⓘ
participant	Chinese high school students ⓘ Chinese middle school students ⓘ Chinese university students ⓘ Red Guards ⓘ rural peasants ⓘ urban youth ⓘ
policyType	population redistribution policy ⓘ social engineering campaign ⓘ
significantEvent	Cultural Revolution ⓘ
slogan	educated youth must go to the countryside ⓘ Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: up to the mountains and down to the countryside
startTime	1968 ⓘ late 1960s ⓘ
supportedBy	Chinese Communist Party ⓘ

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Red Guards → aftermathPolicy → Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement ⓘ

Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement → slogan → Up to the mountains and down to the countryside movement self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement

this entity surface form: up to the mountains and down to the countryside