Growing Up in the People’s Republic
Conversations between Two Daughters of China’s Revolution
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Open AccessGreenhouse gas emissions from municipal wastewater treatment facilities in China from 2006 to 2019
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) alleviate water pollution but also induce resource consumption and environmental impacts especially greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Mitigating GHG emissions of WWTPs can con...
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“Even If You Cut It, It Will Not Come Apart”
Ma **aodong and I have felt a growing need to reconcile ourselves with the realities of our grandparents’ existence. Now that we have come a long way from our naïve youth, we want to dig deeper into our roots,...
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Worker–Peasant–Soldier Students
Colleges reopened their doors in the early 1970s after stop** admissions in 1966. In the fall of 1973 both Ma **aodong and I went back to Bei**g to attend college. We felt luckier than most of our peers who...
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Afterword
After receiving her doctoral degree in sociology from Northeastern University in 1999, Ma **aodong went back to China and now teaches at Fudan University in Shanghai. Her concern for rural China and women’s is...
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The Reform Era
In 1978 China entered a new era of reform and opening-up, and has since undergone profound transformation economically, socially, and culturally. The change in the political realm has been less impressive. The...
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From Paper Crown to Leather Belt
The years prior to the Cultural Revolution were critical in grooming our generation for the roles we were to play in the ensuing political upheaval. What happened on many secondary-school campuses in Bei**g a...
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“Flowers of the Nation”
In the 1950s, there was a popular children’s movie called “Flowers of the Nation.” A well-known scene in the movie was a group of youngsters enjoying themselves at the end of a school day in Bei**g’s scenic B...
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Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside
Between the summer of 1968 and the spring of 1969, a large number of people in our age cohort left cities to go to various parts of the countryside.1 Because of this shared fate, we acquired a collective name, “z...
