Banished to the Great Northern WildernessAfter Mao Zedong's Anti Rightist Campaign of 195758, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as