Sent-down youth

Sent-down youth

Sent-down youth (zh-stp |t=下鄉青年 |s=下乡青年 |p=xiàxiāng qīngnián) refers to a privileged urban youth who was sent to the mountain or farming areas to learn traditional skills during the late 1960s and early 1970s under China's Down to the Countryside Movement.


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