In my September, 2009 post; EVERYTHING YOU’VE BEEN TOLD ABOUT COMMUNISM IS WRONG; Capitalism is a failure…Revolution is the solution the video and the event takes on the mountains of horrific lies and Orwellian double-think about China’s Communist Revolution epitomized by the anti-intellectual pile of steaming garbage; Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Here are six wonderful books presenting a strong research basis for basing a well-informed understanding of China’s Cultural Revolution. These are also tremendously passionate human dramas of unprecedented scale and importance to the future of this planet and the emancipation of humanity.
The battle for China’s past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
By Mobo C. F. Gao
The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village
By Dongping HanA two volume biography of Mao Tsetung
By Han Suyin
Volume 1 The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese revolution, 1893-1954
Volume 2 Wind in the Tower: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Revolution, 1949-75
You can read the chronology and the introduction to Some of Us: Chinese women growing up in the Mao era By Xueping Zhong, Zheng Wang, Bai Di and about 50% of the entire book Fanshen by William Hinton here below.
And an incredible ballet film here for you also:
Hi Don:
This is a wonderful site in development. A couple of other books to add to the list is:
Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow,China Shakes the World by Jack Belden,Battle Hymn of China by Agnes Smedley,When the Serfs Stood Up in Tibet by Anna Louise Strong- although this book may be out of print. Also William Hinton’s last book Through a Glass Darkly:American Views of the Chinese Revolution is also an important book to list.Joshua Horns’ book, Away With All Pests- which is out of print, but it is an invaluable book which chronicles the changes in the lives of Chinese people since the revolution, particularly on the question of public health and how even further changes and advances were made in that sphere during the much maligned Cultural Revolution.
Oops, I got a bit carried away. Sorry about that . The only book here that I referenced which directly relates to the GPCR is “Away With All Pests”. William Hinton did write “The Hundred Day War” which chronicled the GPCR and some of the things that happened at one of China’s premier schools, Tsinhua University during that period. Lois Wheeler Snow who is Edgar Snow’s widow, wrote a book about some of the changes that occurred in theater called, “China on Stage” which also covered some of the changes in art and theatre during that period. Unfortunately, these books are probably out of print and may only be available in libraries.