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COLLECTIVE MEMORIES OF 48 SENT-DOWN YOUTHS IN LIAOXI-SHENYANG is a complete archive of the sent-down youths in Panjin of Liaoning Province, which describes the establishment, development and disappearance of a sent-down youth site, and depicts physical labor, life and study of the 1,200 sent-down youths. With rarely found materials of sent-down youths in Chinese history, the book not only deals with the suffering of the sent-down youths, but also records the quantity of rice contributed to the country by them in the ten years, which reflects the achievements of the sent-down youths. The book also gives objective accounts of Mao Yuanxin in this sent-down youth site as well as of Factory Farming Experiment of Planting Rice which was a scientific project carried out according to the intention of Jiang Qing.