| dc.description.abstract | Around 1979, large scales of educated youths moved back to the cities. However, after years away from the cities, these educated youths faced many difficulties in life. Writers in the 80’s expressed the lifestyle of the youths during that era. This thesis is to inquiry the collective memory of these youths, including adapting to the living environment, fitting in the work-family, the difficulties of material life, the swamp of marriage and academic studies, confusion of thoughts and emotions with other living conditions.
In this thesis, “Text Analyzing” was applied, and Liang Xiao sheng’s novel ＂Xue Cheng＂ served as base. This thesis first analyzed the lives of Youths that return to the city in “Xue Cheng,” then referred it to other writer’s text that presented the same issue; while quoting relevant historical researches, sociology researches, journal discussions, and statistics as strong supports to draw a conclusion of the collective memory of the educated youths who returned to the cities.
The impact of the youths that returned to the cities on society, and family, has left the youths to confront the coldness of the city’s residents, the crowded living space, and the estrangement among the family. Upon Marriage and Carriers, the youths had to face the pressure of older unmarried, broken marriage, or the loss of love. Some of the youths became unemployed youths, or physical labors. Due to their occupation or dreams, they were active in catching up with academic studies, but their poor basis and older in age has made it particularly difficult. Under the dilemma of different values and contradictions, the youths had to face new values, strict morality and the city’s new standards, which made the Youths nothing to comply with. Collectivism and personal life has made it unable to choose for the Youths; while a big difference lies between idealism and realistic life. Among the uncertainty and pondering of the Youths that returned to the cities, some are content with it, some couldn’t accept that they ought to live regular lives, and some upon missing the lives before chose to “return” to the suburban. The youths recalled and self-examined their lives in that “Educated Youth” era. To sum up, the lives of the educated youths who returned to the cities is said to be another form of the collective memory of the educated youths.
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