Zhishi qingnian（Bahasa Cina: 知識青年, "pemuda-pemudi terpelajar"; dipendekkan kepada zhiqing, 知青) merupakan golongan pemuda-pemudi dari bandar-bandar se-Republik Rakyat China yang dihantar ke kawasan pedalaman baik secara sukarela mahupun secara paksa sebagai sebuah rancangan "Gerakan Naik Gunung Turun Desa" (上山下鄉運動, Shàngshān Xiàxiāng Yùndòng) yang berlangsung dalam Revolusi Budaya dari tahun 1950-an sehingga revolusi tersebut berakhir.[1][2]
Majoriti pemuda-pemudi yang terlibat dalam "kegiatan turun padang ini" merupakan lepasan pendidikan asas dan menengah; hanya segelinitr sahaja daripada mereka yang dapat melanjutkan pelajaran ke pendidikan tahap universiti atau tertier.[3]
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- ^ Cao, Zuoya (2003), Out of the crucible: literary works about the rusticated youth, Lexington Books, m/s. 1, ISBN 978-0-7391-0506-1 "The Zhiqing and the Rustication Movement "Zhiqing" is the abbreviation for zhishi qingnian, which is usually translated as "educated youth." (Zhishi means "knowledge" while qingnian means "youth.") The term zhishi qingnian appeared during "
- ^ China's Sent-Down Generation 2013 216 "zhiqing: Contraction of zhishi qingnian, ..."
- ^ The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution -Guo Jian, Yongyi Song, Yuan Zhou - 2009 p74 "EDUCATED YOUTHS (zhishi qingnian or zhiqing). Although college graduates were also included in its original definition, this term, as commonly understood today, refers mainly to urban and suburban middle-school and high-school graduates during the Cultural Revolution who went to the... to be reeducated by the farmers there"