zhiqing
Syllables: zhi·qing/d͡ʒɪˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
zhiqing noun: a member of the "educated youth", the young Chinese sent from urban areas to work in poor villages as part of the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement.
Noun
zhiqing (plural zhiqing or zhiqings)
- A member of the "educated youth", the young Chinese sent from urban areas to work in poor villages as part of the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement.
- The most important definitional confusion is between urban and rural educated youth. The term for “educated” or “intellectual” youths, chih-shih ch’ing-nien, is applied both to youths whose families reside in the cities and who went to school there and to youths from peasant families who left their...[1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Introduction”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22
- Quality of life depended largely on the attitudes of the production team leaders and the local peasants, and the zhiqings' experiences with the peasants were varied.1994, Laifong Leung, Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation, page xxvii
- Synonyms:
- educated youth, sent-down youth, rusticated youth
Examples of zhiqing in a sentence
- Many leaders themselves, or their neighbors and colleagues, had children or relatives as zhiqing, who were another channel of information.2003, Yihong Pan, Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, page 144:
- The authors who have contributed to this book are a group of zhiqing now residing in Houston, Texas.2014, Xuepei Kang, Zhiqing: Stories from China's Special Generation:
- In some cases, politically active zhiqing paid heavily for their involvement in the Cultural Revolution.2015, Peng Deng, Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing, page 11:
Synonyms of zhiqing
- educated youth
- sent-down youth
- rusticated youth
Forms of zhiqing
| plural | zhiqing |
|---|---|
| plural | zhiqings |
Origin of zhiqing
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 知青 (zhīqīng), the Chinese contraction of 知識青年 /知识青年 (zhīshi qīngnián, “intellectual youth”).
Questions about zhiqing
- What does zhiqing mean?
- Zhiqing means a member of the "educated youth", the young Chinese sent from urban areas to work in poor villages as part of the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement.
- How do you use zhiqing in a sentence?
- Many leaders themselves, or their neighbors and colleagues, had children or relatives as zhiqing, who were another channel of information.
- What part of speech is zhiqing?
- Zhiqing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce zhiqing?
- Zhiqing is pronounced /d͡ʒɪˈt͡ʃɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of zhiqing?
- The plural of zhiqing is zhiqing.
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