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THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Please visit my website of digitalized photos from China in 1972
"Serve the People": Daily Life in China During the Cultural Revolution

GENERAL OVERVIEWS

The Cultural Revolution Decade (Army Area Handbook Country Study)

Discovering China: The Cultural Revolution (Thinkquest)

Cultural Revolution (Wikipedia)

DOCUMENTS

Chinese Communism - Documents, Full Issues of Peking Review, Music, Photos (Marxists.org)

CR Documents (wengewang.org)

Works of Four Cultural Revolutionaries:
Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen
(wengewang.org)

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)

Photographers associated with 798 Photo Gallery (Beijing):

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 & ART

Picturing Powers: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (Indiana University)

Cultural Revolution Posters (Sinohits)

Posters of the Cultural Revolution (CNN)

Maoist Art((includes posters, statuettes, and other paraphenalia)

BOOK REVIEWS

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")