Abstract
I instantly connected with Ma Xiaodong when we first met in Boston. It was a decade ago when she was a graduate student in sociology and I taught history at a local university. It delighted me to find a fellow Beijinger, but more than the common birthplace, it was the parallel experience of our youth in China that made me feel an immediate affinity for her.
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Introduction
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Peter Zarrow, “Meanings of Cultural Revolution: Memoirs of Exile,” Positions, 7: 1, 1999, pp. 165–190.
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Milieu, G. (2005). Introduction. In: Growing Up in the People’s Republic. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982070_1
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