Selected Internet Links on
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

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* Especially Recommended

Overviews and Documents

The Cultural Revolution Decade (Army Area Handbook Country Study)

The Cultural Revolution (Wikipedia)

Discovering China: The Cultural Revolution (Thinkquest)

Quotations from Chairman Mao ("The Little Red Book")

Films, Books, Photographs, Exhibits

* Red-Color News Soldier (Li Zhensheng: A Chinese Photographer during the Cultural Revolution)

* Morning Sun: A Film & Website about the Cultural Revolution (Long Bow Films)

* Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Burke Museum, University of Washington)

*Scrapbook of Revolution: Interpreting the Mao Era

Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution (China News Digest: mostly in Chinese)

Chinese Holocaust Memorial

The Culture of the Cultural Revolution (Art, Music, etc.)

Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture (University of Heidelberg; some material in German)

Recent Rifts on the Cultural Revolution in Art (Chineseart.com)

Development of Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution

Dress of the Cultural Revolution (Powerhouse Museum--Australia)

Huxian Peasant Paintings (commercial site)

Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (Ohio State University)

Cultural Revolution Posters (CNN)

Cultural Revolution Graphic Arts (University of Washington)

Cultural Revolution Posters (commercial site)

Cultural Revolution Propaganda Posters

* Songs of the Cultural Revolution (MP3 format)

Music of the Cultural Revolution

 

For more Internet sources on Chinese politics and political history see: China Politics Links (Prof. William A. Joseph, Wellesley College)