{"product_id":"9781925336047-educated-youth","title":"Educated Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nDuring\nthe Cultural Revolution over 14 million Chinese high school graduates were sent\nfrom the cities to live and work in the countryside. They were known as \u003ci\u003ezhiqing \u003c\/i\u003e– ‘educated youth’. They fell in\nlove, married, had children. In the late 1970s the policy changed and they were\nallowed to return, but not their families. Many jumped at the opportunity,\nleaving spouses and children behind. Ten years later the children, now\nteenagers, began to turn up in the cities, looking for their parents. \u003ci\u003eEducated Youth \u003c\/i\u003efollows five such children,\nwho have travelled across China from a province in the south west to Shanghai\nin the east, only to discover that their mothers and fathers have remarried, and\nhave new families, in which there is no room for them. Their reappearance brings\nout the worst in the parents – their duplicity, greed and self-interest – and\nthe best too, as they struggle to come to terms with their sense of love and\nduty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giramondo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33783518232712,"sku":"9781925336047","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/products\/educated-youth-9781925336047-816282.jpg?v=1690120877","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781925336047-educated-youth","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}