Comments on: Six Books on China’s CULTURAL REVOLUTION

By: Maria Borrows

Maria Borrows — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:34:55 +0000

You are an hypocrite and an ignorant person. I wish you could have lived in China during the cultural revolution and then maybe you could really say something about. It is very convenient to judge, as you do, from a “luxurious” armchair position! Shame on you. And by the way…where do you live? I somehow get the feeling that you live in one of those from you so despised countries like Europe or the US, right? Otherwise you would never say such things about communism. Take it from someone who has actually lived through it. Moron

By: Carol Avigdor

Carol Avigdor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:51 +0000

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.

By: Carol Avigdor

Carol Avigdor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:22:44 +0000

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.