Educated YouthDuring the Cultural Revolution, over 14 million Chinese high school graduates were sent from the cities to live and work in the countryside. They were known as zhiqing 'educated youth'. They fell in love, married, and had children. In the late 1970s, the policy changed and they were allowed to return, but not their families. Many jumped at the opportunity, leaving spouses and children behind. Ten years later, the children, now teenagers, began to turn