zhiqings

Noun

zhiqing (plural zhiqing or zhiqings)

1. (historical) 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

   Synonyms:

   educated youth, sent-down youth, rusticated youth