Living with Their Past: Post-Urban Youth Fiction Liu is attracted in his

Liu is attracted in his fiction to the study of modern Peking Man

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Living with Their Past: Post-Urban Youth Fiction Liu is attracted in hisBy Zhang Kangkang Edited by Richard King 2003 144 pages ISBN 962 7255 26 2 A teenager at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Kangkang was caught up in Mao's campaign to send educated urban youth "down" to poor and remote parts of rural China. On their return to the cities in the late 1970s, many began to write about their experience, and "urban youth (zhiqing) literature" was born. Zhang became one of its leading exponents. The theme of