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Down to the Countryside

China · Warfare / Sent-Down Youth. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1968

Mao Zedong22 December 1968

Beijing · Warfare / Sent-Down Youth

Mao orders educated youth to go to the countryside and be re-educated by poor and lower-middle peasants

Names involved

Mao Zedong

Provenance

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