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noun
A member of the "educated youth", the young Chinese sent from urban areas to work in poor villages as part of the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 知青 (zhīqīng), the Chinese contraction of 知識青年 /知识青年 (zhīshi qīngnián, “intellectual youth”).
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