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)
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") |