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Cultural Revolution - 1966–76, mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong, attempting to prevent development of a bureaucratized Soviet style of communism. Mao closed schools and encouraged students to join Red Guard units, which persecuted Chinese teachers and intellectuals and enforced Mao's cult of personality. The movement for criticism of party officials

15 of the Best Books and Articles on: China's Cultural Revolution

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The East Wind Subsides: Chinese Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Andrew Hall Wedeman. 324 pgs.

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...AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION BY ANDREW HALL WEDEMAN...2. China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 -- Causes. DS777...Foreign Policy and the...
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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 2 » Read Now
by Roderick Macfarquhar. 426 pgs.

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China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party » Read Now
by Michael Schoenhals. 406 pgs.

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...Chinas Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 AN EAST...field. AN EAST GATE READER Chinas Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 NOT A DINNER PARTY...Schoenhals, Michael. Chinas Cultural...
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The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Chihua Wen, Bruce Jones. 170 pgs.

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...Children of Chinas Cultural Revolution CHIHUA WEN edited by...mirror: children of Chinas Cultural Revolution / Chihua Wen; edited by...pbk. 1. China--History--Cultural...
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Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Gao Yuan. 382 pgs.

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...A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution GAO YUAN Stanford...Chinas Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Like Anne Franks diary...experiences as a Red Guard in the...
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Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Elizabeth J. Perry, Xun Li. 250 pgs.

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"A meticulous reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai.... This rich & concise study should be read by anyone interested in the complexities of political protests in contemporary China." Times Literary Supplement "Strongly recommended." Choice
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Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Lowell Dittmer. 386 pgs.

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The chief target of China's infamous Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi is one of the tragic figures of the Chinese revolution By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, Lowell Dittmer illuminates not only the life and fate of this fascinating leader but also...
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The chief target of China's infamous Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi is one of the tragic figures of the Chinese revolution By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, Lowell Dittmer illuminates not only the life and fate of this fascinating leader but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development In this new edition, Mr Dittmer tells the end of the story -- the death of Liu Shaoqi and the fate of Wang Guangmei (Liu's wife and a notable figure herself) and other members of Liu's family and inner circle -- and the legacy and relevance of Liu's contribution to China in the late twentieth century.
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The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Jin Qiu. 280 pgs.

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On the night of September 12-13, 1971, Lin Biao, Mao Zedong's officially recognized closest comrade-in-arms and chosen successor, was killed in a mysterious plane crash in Mongolia. The Chinese government did not issue an announcement of Lin's death, and it became generally known only in the summer...
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On the night of September 12-13, 1971, Lin Biao, Mao Zedong's officially recognized closest comrade-in-arms and chosen successor, was killed in a mysterious plane crash in Mongolia. The Chinese government did not issue an announcement of Lin's death, and it became generally known only in the summer of 1972, when the official explanation stated that Lin had masterminded plans for a coup d'etat and the assassination of Mao, and died fleeing to the Soviet Union after both plans had failed. But no convincing proof was offered to substantiate these claims, and the Lin Biao incident has remained an unsolved mystery.
The author brings unique credentials to her reexamination of the incident. She is the daughter of the former commander-in-chief of the Chinese air force, who served under Lin and, along with thousands of others, was imprisoned as a result of the purges that followed Lin's death. For this book, she has drawn upon her father's unpublished memoirs, interviews with former high government officials and their families, and her own experience and acquaintances among the government's elite families, as well as an abundance of newly available documents. The book reexplores three key questions surrounding the Lin Biao incident: Why would Lin, the brilliant architect of pivotal victories in the Civil War who had been doggedly loyal to Mao for decades, suddenly attempt an ill-conceived coup? Why, when the alleged coup failed, would he defect to the Soviet Union? And why and how did Lin's plane crash?
Challenging the official account, this book puts forth a radically different interpretation of the incident, arguing that in a narrow sense it was a consequence of the poisonous interplay ofgovernmental politics and family politics during the Cultural Revolution. The roles of Lin's wife, Ye Qun, and son, Lin Liguo, in the events leading up to the fateful flight are fully discussed for the first time in any lang
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Children of the Cultural Revolution: Family Life and Political Behavior in Mao's China » Read Now
by Xiaowei Zang. 133 pgs.

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Xiaowei Zang is assistant professor of sociology at City University of Hong Kong.
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The Red Guards' Path to Violence: Political, Educational, and Psychological Factors » Read Now
by Jing Lin. 192 pgs.

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This book offers an in-depth look at the political psychology of China's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. By probing the political, educational, and psychological factors influencing the Red Guards, Jing Lin sheds light on how teenagers and young adults were able to justify...
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This book offers an in-depth look at the political psychology of China's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. By probing the political, educational, and psychological factors influencing the Red Guards, Jing Lin sheds light on how teenagers and young adults were able to justify violence in the name of class struggle and human rights. This book provides insights to China's student movement of 1989, and is a valuable resource for students of Chinese history, revolution, political psychology, and education.
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Chinese Fiction of the Cultural Revolution » Read Now
by Lan Yang. 340 pgs.

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...Chinese Fiction of the Cultural Revolution Chinese Fiction of the Cultural Revolution Lan Yang HONG KONG UNIVERSITY...Literary Policy and Theory in the Cultural Revolution...
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Political Religion: The Case of the Cultural Revolution in China, in SA. Sociological Analysis » Read Now
by Jiping Zuo. 12 pgs.

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...Religion: The Case of the Cultural Revolution in China * Jiping...ritual activities during the Cultural Revolution, when all the traditional...reached a peak during the...
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Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China » Read Now
by Xiao Di Zhu. 255 pgs.

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This is the personal account of a man who grew up in China and witnessed tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution. Born in Nanjing in 1958, Zhu Xiao Di was the son of idealistic, educated parents. His father and uncles joined the Communist movement in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation and...
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This is the personal account of a man who grew up in China and witnessed tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution. Born in Nanjing in 1958, Zhu Xiao Di was the son of idealistic, educated parents. His father and uncles joined the Communist movement in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation and were influential underground and military leaders throughout the revolution. Despite their honorable history, they fell into political disfavor by the time of the Cultural Revolution. In 1968, when Zhu was just ten years old, his mother and father were taken to different labor camps for "rehabilitation". In the face of this injustice, the Zhus struggled to maintain family ties and uphold traditional values. Eventually, the family was reunited and restored to some measure of prominence, and a monument was later erected in Nanjing in honor of Zhu's father, Zhu Qiluan. At the heart of this narrative are the trials of a family caught in the crosscurrents of history - from the early attractions of the Communist revolution to the national disaster that followed and the subsequent odyssey of recovery.
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China during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976: A Selected Bibliography of English Language Works » Read Now
by Tony H. Chang. 206 pgs.

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One of the most tumultuous periods in modern Chinese history, the Cultural Revolution affected virtually all Chinese people and all aspects of Chinese life, including art, music and drama, education, factory management, economic planning, and medical care. Studies of the Cultural Revolution, in both...
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One of the most tumultuous periods in modern Chinese history, the Cultural Revolution affected virtually all Chinese people and all aspects of Chinese life, including art, music and drama, education, factory management, economic planning, and medical care. Studies of the Cultural Revolution, in both Chinese and Western languages, have burgeoned over the past three decades. This comprehensive, easy-to-use bibliography provides a guide to published English-language sources on the Cultural Revolution. With over a thousand entries, it includes books, monographs, dissertations, and audio-visual materials on a broad range of topics from the military, education, religion, and economics to foreign relations, population, art, literature, and drama.
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China since the Cultural Revolution: From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism » Read Now
by Jie Chen, Peng Deng. 138 pgs.

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This book provides an alternative analytical approach to the study of China's political changes since the Cultural Revolution, which treats those changes as a transition from totalitarianism to authoritarianism. While depicting important political-economic events, it focuses on the changes in such...
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This book provides an alternative analytical approach to the study of China's political changes since the Cultural Revolution, which treats those changes as a transition from totalitarianism to authoritarianism. While depicting important political-economic events, it focuses on the changes in such major sociopolitical factors as the people's attitude toward the regime, government policy, the ruling methods of the regime, and the interrelationships among them. Based on the analyses of these factors, the book also predicts the future of the current Communist regime in terms of the challenges it will face and its ability to meet them.
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