Chinese Revolution Resources
Chinese Revolution Resources
Chinese RevolutionArticles/Teaching
Resources / § “Documenting China’sl Lost history of famine” (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-17987733
§ Mao Tse-Tung from New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1226.html
§ Asia for Educators site from Columbia University
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
§ Intellectuals on the 100 Flowers Period
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/hundred_flowers.pdf
§ From People’s Daily (Party Paper) – “How China Proceeds with the task of Industrialization”
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/jiyun_industrialization.pdf
§ Sixteen points for the Cultural Revolution
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/sixteen_points.pdf
§ Quotations from Mao on Revolution and War
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1900_mao_war.htm
§ Commonly read speeches ad writings of Mao
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1900_mao_speeches.htm
§ How to be a good communist
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/liu_shaoqi_good_communist.pdf
§ Quotations from Chairman Mao on being a communist
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/mao_being_communist.pdf
§ Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Civilization-Sourcebook-2nd-Ed/dp/002908752X
§ Students Attack Against Teachers (University of Chicago)
http://hum.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/1966teacher.htm
§ China: the 1950s (Land Reform and Collectivization)
http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-2742.html
Data/Infographics / § Gallery of Chinese Propaganda Posters
http://chineseposters.net/
§ Chronology of PRC under Mao
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1950_prc_timeline.htm
Personal Stories / § Cultural Revolution: Son’s guilt over the mother he sent to her death (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/27/china-cultural-revolution-sons-guilt-zhang-hongping
§ A Leader in Mao’s Cultural Revolution Faces His Past (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/world/asia/a-student-leader-in-maos-cultural-revolution.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
§ China’s Red Guard’s Apologize (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/01/23/265228870/chinese-red-guards-apologize-reopening-a-dark-chapter
§ Interview with Bright Sheng, pianist
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/4750978.0007.103/--interview-with-bright-sheng?rgn=main;view=fulltext
Videos / § China: A Century of Revolution (documentary)
§ Morning Sun (film and website with primary sources and data)
http://www.morningsun.org/about/index.html
Podcasts / § Recording the Untold Stories of China’s Great Famine (NPR) – featuring the Folk Memory Project
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/11/164801546/recording-the-untold-stories-of-chinas-great-famine
§ China’s Red Guard’s Apologize (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/01/23/265228870/chinese-red-guards-apologize-reopening-a-dark-chapter
§ Rural Women and China’s Disappearing Collective Past (UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies)
http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/article/146480
2D Art / § Cultural Revolution (Propaganda images from University of Washington)
https://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/graph/9wenge.htm
§ Great Leap Forward Propaganda Posters
http://chineseposters.net/themes/great-leap-forward.php
§ New Marriage Law of 1950
http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/special/13/6131-1.htm
§ New Marriage Law
http://chineseposters.net/themes/marriage-law.php
§ China’s Propaganda Posters of Minority Groups
http://chineseposters.net/themes/national-minorities.php
§ Cultural Revolution in Tibet
http://beijingcream.com/2013/01/the-double-tragedy-of-the-cultural-revolution-in-tibet/
Poetry/Prose / § Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (short novel/fiction)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balzac_and_the_Little_Chinese_Seamstress
§ Dreams of Joy and Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See (fiction)
http://www.lisasee.com/
§ A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama (fiction)
http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Flowers-Novel-Gail-Tsukiyama/dp/1250022541/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
§ Wild Swans by Jung Chang (might be long for 9th graders, but still worth looking at)
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Swans-Three-Daughters-China/dp/0743246985
§ Date Orchard by Hao Ran (most popular author in the PRC during the Cultural Revolution)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/hao_ran.pdf
§ Mao’s Little Red Book
Songs / § Songs of China’s Cultural Revolution (Wellesley College)
http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/China/CRSongs/crsongs.htm