THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION
GENERAL OVERVIEWS
The Cultural Revolution Decade (Army Area Handbook Country Study)
Discovering China: The Cultural Revolution (Thinkquest)
Cultural Revolution (Wikipedia)
PHOTOGRAPHS
Red-Color News SoldieR
(Li Zhensheng: A Chinese Photographer during the Cultural Revolution)
Slideshow: Photos from "Irrational Times"
PHotos depicting Chinese people's worship of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution taken by Xiao Zhuang, a Zhejiang-born photojournalist who started working for Xinhua News Daily in 1952. In 2004, a number of Xiao's works were published under the title "Irrational Times" by Zhonghua Publishing House and displayed at 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing. (Note by Sophia Cao :: 2007-08-05 , China Digital Times)
FILMS
Morning Sun: A Film & Website about the Cultural Revolution (Long Bow Films)
From the Masses to the Masses: An Artist in Mao's China (Combat Films/KBYU, 2005)
"Though I am Gone" -- a documentary film by Hu Jie about Bian Zhongyun vice-principal of the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University, who was beaten to death by students early in the Cultural Revolution. Includes extensive commentary by her husband.
EXHIBITS & MUSEUMS
Remembering the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Two Day Multimedia Event, University of California at San Diego, to be held, 12-13 January 2007
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Burke Museum, University of Washington)
Scrapbook of Revolution: Interpreting the Mao Era
Artifacts of the Cultural Revolution (including posters, Mao badges, songs, etc.)
Chinese Holocaust Memorial
Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution (China News Digest: mostly in Chinese)
MUSIC AND CULTURE
Songs of the Cultural Revolution (Wellesley College)
Rethinking Cultural Revoluton Culture (University of Heidelberg)
POSTERS
Picturing Powers: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (Indiana University)
Cultural Revolution Posters (Sinohits)
Posters of the Cultural Revolution (CNN)
BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS
Roderick McFarquahar and Michel Schoehals, Mao's Last Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Review: "Mao's Great Terror," by Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books, Sept. 6, 2006.
OTHER
Quotations from Chairman Mao ("The Little Red Book") |
