Educated Youth

Duringthe Cultural Revolution over 14 million Chinese high school graduates were sentfrom the cities to live and work in the countryside. They were known as zhiqing 'educated youth'. They fell inlove, married, had children. In the late 1970s the policy changed and they wereallowed to return, but not their families. Many jumped at the opportunity,leaving spouses and children behind. Ten years later the children, nowteenagers, began to turn up in the cities, looking for their parents. Educated You