When this website is complete, it will contain an extensive collection of primary source documents from the Cultural Revolution (including speeches, newspaper editorials and articles, directives, big-character posters, letters, diaries, pamphlets, and self-criticisms), as well as a wide range of secondary source material, such as essays, memoirs, articles, and book excerpts. These personal narratives, histories, biographies, and scholarly analyses will serve to represent a variety of perspectives on the Cultural Revolution.

Original documents - examples:

The Little Red Book

Revolutionary Cultural Productions:

About the Red Guards:

The Mao Cult:

Secondary sources - examples:

Related Readings - examples:

Online Articles

Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun, "Revolutionary Rudeness: The Language of Red Guards and Rebel Workers in China's Cultural Revolution," Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China 2 (Summer 1993): 7.

Michael Schoenhals, "Talk about a Revolution: Red Guards, Government Cadres, and the Language of Political Discourse," Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China 1 (Spring 1993): 39.

Vivian Wagner, "Songs of the Red Guards: Keywords Set to Music," Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China 2 (Winter 1996).

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds., Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994).

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Images and Photographs

Chinese Propaganda Posters, From the Collection of Michael Wolf (TASCHEN, 2003).

Chinese Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to Modernization, Stefan Landsberger (Pepin Press, 1997).

Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China, Harriet Evans and Stephanie Donald (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 1999).

Red-Color News Soldier, Li Zhensheng (Phaidon Press, 2003).

Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979, Julia F. Andrews (University of California Press, 1994).

Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984, Maria Galikowski (Chinese University Press, 1998).



Key Documents

China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party, Michael Schoenhals (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).

Educational Materials

Teaching Red Scarf Girl - A Study Guide to Ji-li Jiang's memoir, Red Scarf Girl, from Facing History and Ourselves