Hu and her four dormmates on the farm have stayed in regular contact for the past four decades . Millions of young people moved from city to country during China 's Cultural Revolution . Under Mao Zedong , the Communist Party was composed of ` ` bourgeois '' elements . Hu Rongfen was a middle school student sent away from her home in Shanghai . Hu : ` ` We were told that city dwellers never moved their limbs and could not distinguish different crops ''
Millions of young people moved from city to country during China 's Cultural Revolution . Under Mao Zedong , the Communist Party was composed of ` ` bourgeois '' elements . Hu Rongfen was a middle school student sent away from her home in Shanghai . Hu : ` ` We were told that city dwellers never moved their limbs and could not distinguish different crops ''