Description: In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace Yihong Pan tells her story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement.
Review Quotes: "It is in Pan's own remembrances that individuals emerge most affectingly. In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace she provides a critical building block for the comprehensive history of post-1949 rural China that waits to be written." --History: Review Of New Books