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Harvest nostalgia for former rusticated youth

An Educated Youth Wheat Harvest Festival was held yesterday in Jinzhan for more than one hundred Beijing residents.

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1979: Beijing’s Big Bowl Tea

Before Wang Xiuchen returned to Beijing in 1977, she had spent eight years in a remote village as a farmer. Though she was called “educated youth”, she had only finished junior middle school and struggled to find a job in the capital.

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