Library
When this website is complete, it will contain an extensive
collection of primary source documents from the Cultural Revolution (including
speeches, newspaper editorials and articles, directives, big-character
posters, letters, diaries, pamphlets, and self-criticisms), as well as
a wide range of secondary source material, such as essays, memoirs, articles,
and book excerpts. These personal narratives, histories, biographies,
and scholarly analyses will serve to represent a variety of perspectives
on the Cultural Revolution.
Original documents - examples:
The Little Red Book
Revolutionary Cultural Productions:
Literature and
Art Workers Hold Rally for Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
| Rent Collection Courtyard
- Sculptures of Oppression and Revolt
About the Red Guards:
It's Fine! |
Red Guards Destroy the Old and Establish
the New | The Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution Engulfs Peking's Streets | The
Red Guards' Battle Song, We Are Chairman Mao's Red Guards
The Mao Cult:
The Whole Family
is Red | World's People Eagerly
Seek Chairman Mao Badges | Mao
Zedong Thought is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary
Cause | Exploring
the Secrets of Treating Deaf-Mutes | Mao
Tse-tung's Thought Opens a New Road to the Curing of Deaf-Mutes
| Cancer is a Paper Tiger
| Spiritual Atom
Bomb Aids Harvest
Geremie R. Barmé, Shades
of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader The
Tiananmen Poems , about the April 1976 Tiananmen Incident, from Brushes
with Power Human Rights
in China ," 1978 essay published in The Burning Forest The
Gate and the Square The Cultural Revolution: A Terrible
Beauty Is Born ," from The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics
and Politics in Twentieth-Century China
Related Readings - examples:
Online Articles Revolutionary
Rudeness: The Language of Red Guards and Rebel Workers in China's Cultural
Revolution ," Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language
and Politics in Modern China 2 (Summer 1993): 7.Talk
about a Revolution: Red Guards, Government Cadres, and the Language
of Political Discourse ," Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series
on Language and Politics in Modern China 1 (Spring 1993): 39.Songs
of the Red Guards: Keywords Set to Music ," Indiana East
Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China
2 (Winter 1996).Popular
Protest and Political Culture in Modern China
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Images and Photographs Chinese
Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to Modernization Picturing
Power in the People's Republic of China
Red-Color
News Soldier , Li Zhensheng (Phaidon Press, 2003).Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 ,
Julia F. Andrews (University of California Press, 1994).Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984 , Maria Galikowski
(Chinese University Press, 1998).Key Documents China's
Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party
Educational Materials Teaching Red Scarf Girl Red Scarf Girl , from Facing History and Ourselves
Selected Bibliography