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NPR (blog)
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Jiang Qing's high camp theatrical productions were intended to "serve the interests of the workers, peasants, and soldiers and [conforming] to proletarian ideology".
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In 1966, the youth movement known as the Red Guards was mobilised in China. Saul Yeung was one of them.
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'Saul Yeung was a member of the Red Guards. He spoke to Witness about his memories of that time and the guilt he still carries.'
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Frank Dikotter interviewed about the Cultural Revolution.
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A review of Mao's Little Red Book: a Global History (ed. Alexander C. Cook). 'At the peak of its popularity, Mao's bible was the most printed book in the world. It attained the status of a sacred, holy text during the Cultural Revolution, and retains its place among western devotees.'
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More interpretations of Mao and Maoism.
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For the majority of Soviet people in the 1960s, Mao’s China stood for everything that was wrong in the Soviet system itself
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Blog from Andrei Lankov, useful for interpretations of Mao. 'In the late 1960s, Mao Zedong was quite popular among Western progressive intellectuals like Jean Paul Sartre, who started putting the Chinese leader on the pedestal where he once placed Joseph Stalin ... Things in Moscow were different, very different indeed. Mao and his social model found virtually no admirers in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s.'
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The photographer Li Zhensheng documented China's Cultural Revolution for his local paper in Harbin, but soon started taking pictures that didn't align with the Community Party dogma and, fearing retribution, hid them.
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A 37 metre-high gold-coloured statue of Chairman Mao has been built in the Chinese countryside, local media reports.
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If you are going to build a statue of Mao, you may as well build a big one.
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"US citizen Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years in China at a time of momentous upheaval, personally befriending Mao Zedong and other veteran Chinese revolutionary leaders as they seized power from the Kuomintang from 1945 onwards. Here he reveals his unique perspective on the civil war, the early days of Communism and Mao's philosophy."
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The American understanding of Mao Zedong has been in flux for the past seventy-five years. That is because what we know about the lives of historical figures is constrained by our sources of information and shaped by the times in which we live.
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Useful for interpretations of Mao.
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Galleries of political posters from the Mao era and subsequently.
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Benjamin Ramm discovers a period during China's Cultural Revolution when the country was gripped by a mania for mangoes.
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The man and the mango. A curious cult associated with the Cultural Revolution.
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Veteran Chinese journalist and historian Yang Jisheng investigated the massive death toll from China's Great Famine, and the government policies that caused it, in Tombstone, a book that is often considered the most authoritative account of the man-made disaster that stretched from 1958 to 1962. Published in 2008, the book is still banned in Mainland... Via Mr. MacCollum
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Veteran Chinese journalist and historian Yang Jisheng investigated the massive death toll from China’s Great Famine in his book, Tombstone.
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March 12, 2016 11:52 PM
Really interesting read about one of the most momentous periods of the 20th Century that gets little press (for a whole lot of reasons).
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Of all the books on the Cultural Revolution that have appeared during this anniversary year, I was most intrigued by those that told detailed local stories to illustrate the larger history.
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Book reviews on the Cultural Revolution. Good for interpretations.
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'Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China.'
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'Frank Dikotter’s gripping, horrific and at times sensationalistic The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 ... challenges the Chinese people to address those missing years. Drawn from hundreds of English-language and Chinese eyewitness accounts, newly available archival records, online Cultural Revolution documentary projects and foreign and Chinese scholarship, the book paints such a damning portrait of Mao and Communist Party governance that if it were widely circulated in China, it could undermine the legitimacy of the current regime.'
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Promoting Mao's cult of personality with posters.
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A radical take on Mao from the US Marxist, William Z. Foster.
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A review of Lee Feigon's outrageous film, The Passion of the Mao.
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From the Film "Morning Sun." The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cu...
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Mao signals his return to political life by swimming in the Yangtze River, July 1966.
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Russel Tarr's quiz on Mao's rise to power. Cheap thrills for the successful candidate.
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Philip Short, author of 'Mao: a Life' presents a BBC documentary on Mao.
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The 571 affair and the strange death of Lin Biao in September 1971.
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Mao, Khrushchev and the Sino-Soviet split, from the denunciation of Stalin.
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Frank Dikotter discussing his extraordinary book on the Great Leap Forward.