Recommended: Marc Blecher, China Against the Tides, chs. 1-2. (A review of the Chinese revolution and the Mao era,so you can probably skim these if you took 208.)

Required for all:

*Stuart R. Schram, “Mao Zedong a Hundred Years On: The Legacy of a Ruler,” The China Quarterly  No. 137 (Mar., 1994), pp. 125-143. JSTOR

*"Comrade Mao Zedong's Historical Role and Mao Zedong Thought” from Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on June 27, 1981. LINK Thiswas part of a reassessment of CCP-PRC history that was written in 1981and set the tone, in many ways, for the official post-Mao view of Mao.

*"Chinese president addresses Party forum on Mao Zedong's 110th birth anniversary," speech given by President Hu Jintao, December 26, 2003. LINK The most recent substantive statement of the official view of Mao.

The RevolutionaryLeader [REV]

C&H, chs. 11-14.

Chapters by Oksenberg ("The Political Leader," pp. 70-86), Wakeman ("The Patriot), and Guillermaz ("The Soldier," pp. 117-131)inDickWilson, Mao Tse-tungin the Scales of History: A Preliminary Assessment. DS778.M3 M2865; I will try to make these available via Electronic Reserve.

The Hundred Flowers Movementand Anti-Rightest Campaign [HF/ARC]

C&H: chs. 30-34

Elizabeth J. Perry, "Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957," The China Quarterly, No. 137. (Mar., 1994), pp. 1-27. JSTOR

Maurice Meisner, Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, ch. 10. DS777.55 .M455 (any edition)

The Great LeapForward [GLF]

C&H, chs. 40-45

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, "Trauma and Memory: The case of the Great Famine in the People's Republic of China (1959-1961)," Historiography East and West, 1 (1): 39-67, March 1 2003. IngentaConnect

William A. Joseph, "A Tragedy of Good Intentions:Post-Mao Views of the Great Leap Forward," Modern China, Vol. 12, No.4. (Oct., 1986), pp. 419-457. JSTOR

B. Ashton, K. Hill, A. Piazza and R. Zeitz, "Faminein China, 1958-61", Population and Development Review, 10, 4, December1984, pp. 613-45. JSTOR Note:This was the article that broke the "news" that the toll of the GreatLeap famine was much higher than ever admited or expected.

Thomas P. Bernstein, “"Stalinism, Famine, and ChinesePeasants: Grain Procurements during the Great Leap Forward,” Theory andSociety, Vol. 13.3 (May, 1984), pp. 339-377. JSTOR

TheCultural Revolution       [GPCR]

C&H, chs. 46-50.

Andrew Walder and Yan Su, "The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: Scope, Timing and Human Impact." China  Quarterly, 173 (March 2003), pp. 75-99, LINK; PDF also in course conference folder "Other Readings." Thisarticle 'proves' that the extent of violence in the rural areas duringthe CR was much higher than previously believed by Western scholars.

 MoboC. F. Gao, "Debating the Cultural Revolution: Do We Only Know What WeBelieve?", in Critical Asian Studies, Volume 34, Number 3 / September01, 2002, pp. 419 - 434. LINK Acall not to believe everything "bad" we hear about the CR, or at leastto realize that it was a more complex event than is usuallyacknowledged by scholars.

Donald S. Sutton, "Consuming Counterrevolution: TheRitual and Culture of Cannibalism in Wuxuan, Guangxi, China, May toJuly 1968," Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 37, No. 1(Jan., 1995), pp. 136-172. JSTOR

The Lin Biao Affair

C&H, chs. 51-54

Stephen Uhalley, Jr. and Qiu Jin , "The Lin Biao Incident: More Than Twenty Years Later," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 3. (Autumn, 1993), pp. 386-398. JSTOR

Red Guards:

C&H, chs. 55-58.

Andrew Walder, “"Beijing Red Guard Factionalism: Social Interpretations reconsidered,"” Journal of Asian Studies 61.2 May 2002. pp. 437-472. JSTOR

Sympatheticaccounts of Mao and Maoism:

J. Gurley, "Maoist Economic Development: The New'Man' in the New China", in Gurley, China's Economy and the MaoistStrategy. (ER) A very positive assessement of Mao's economic goalswritten by a well-established neo-classical US economist -- or at leasthe was until he became enamored with "Maoist ideosyncracies" (as LizPerry put it).

Xueping Zhong, et. al, Some of Us: Chinese WomenGrowing Up in the Mao Era(Selections) Hq 1767 S598 2001. Personal accounts and reflections bywomen who generally have a positive outlook on what the Mao era meantto them and women in general in China.