BADGES OF
CHAIRMAN MAO: A short
text-based history of Mao Zedong badges.
CHAIRMAN SMILES: A
selection of Chinese propaganda posters from the International Institute of
Social History divided into three categories -- Early Years (1949-1965), The
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and Modernization (1977-1997).
CHINA 1900-1976: A good introduction to Chinese history from The Boxer Rebellion through The Cultural Revolution from the British-based History Learning Site.
CHINA -- FIFTY YEARS INSIDE THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC:
A 1989 exhibition from the Asia Society and Aperture.
CHINA, 1945-PRESENT: A one-page synopsis from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND TRADE: A very brief overview of China's economic policy since the 1980s from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY -- THE HISTORICAL LEGACY AND THE CURRENT CHALLENGE: A fact sheet from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY: A concise history from the Spartacus educational site.
CHINESE DIGITAL
ARCHIVE 1966-1976:
Source material from the Australian National University on the Cultural
Revolution.
COUNTRY
STUDY -- CHINA: A
general introduction to China from the U.S. Library of Congress.
CULTURAL REVOLUTION -- WIKIPEDIA: An overview from the on-line encyclopedia.
CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A
concise timeline of this extraordinary social movement.
CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A detailed historical introduction from a student Think Quest.
DENG XIAOPING: A brief
biography by Todd Crowell and Thomas Hon Wing Polin that is part of an
end-of-the-century AsiaWeek special feature.
DENG
XIAOPING: A glowing
biographical pictorial that involved the participation of the New China News
Agency and the Chinese government.
DISCOVERING CHINA: A student Think Quest that offers an introduction to twentieth-century Chinese history.
GANG OF FOUR -- WIKIPEDIA: A collective biography of the party leaders, including Mao's widow Jiang Qing, who were arrested and removed from their positions following the 1976 death of Mao.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS -- CHINESE LEADERS: Biographical information and some primary source material about Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaping from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS -- COMMONLY READ SPEECHES OF MAO ZEDONG: Four short excerpts from between 1927 and 1945 as organized by Columbia's East Asian Curriculum Project.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS -- DEMOCRATIC THEORY IN CHINA AND TIANANMEN SQUARE: The East Asian Curriculum Project provides background and texts that attempt to place the 1989 protests in historical context.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS -- MAO ZEDONG ON WAR AND REVOLUTION: A short series of quotations with accompanying discussion questions.
GREAT LEAP FORWARD -- WIKIPEDIA: A concise history of China's disastrous 1958-60 attempt at forced industrialization.
HEDDA MORRISON PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHINA, 1933-1946:
An on-line exhibit from the Harvard-Yenching Library.
HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- WIKIPEDIA: A basic introduction from the on-line encyclopedia.
HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- WIKIPEDIA: Combines the history of mainland China from the time of the 1911 Revolution with that of post-1949 Taiwan.
HUNDRED FLOWERS CAMPAIGN -- WIKIPEDIA: The on-line encyclopedia offers a concise history of this 1956-57 Chinese communist experiment in glasnost.
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA: This Chinese
government source includes an extensive archive of photographs.
INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES: A comprehensive series of links maintained by the Sinological Institute of Leiden University.
INTERVIEW WITH JIN JINGZHI, CHINESE CITIZEN, SHANGHAI: A short transcript of how the Chinese Revolution interviewed one person (from The People's Century series).
MAO -- MODEL ANSWER: Concise biographical detail and test-taking strategy from a British-based exam revision site.
MAO ZEDONG
-- WIKIPEDIA: A
biography of the Communist leader from the on-line encyclopedia.
MAO ZEDONG: A capsule overview from the Spartacus educational site.
MAO TSE TUNG: Background materials to accompany an episode of the British Channel 4's History in Action -- Heroes or Villains documentary series.
MAO ZEDONG REFERENCE ARCHIVE:
A Marxist site that includes a biography, photos and selected writings of Mao.
MAOSISM -- WIKIPEDIA: A synopsis of Mao Zedong Thought.
MAO'S CHINA:
A chapter of Frank E. Smitha's 1998 on-line history of the twentieth century.
MAOIST ART:
Background context and a series of propaganda poster, Cultural Revolution
statuettes and other miscellany.
: An introduction to 20th century Chinese history from Richard Hooker at
Washington State University.
MODERN CHINA -- THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA: A short historical overview from the web-site of Yunnan Concern, an organization devoted to improving the lives of the people of Southwest China.
MODERN HISTORY -- FARMERS AND THE CHINESE REVOLUTION: A synopsis and primary document excerpts from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
MODERN HISTORY -- MAO ZEDONG AND THE CHINESE REVOLUTION: Background information and primary documents from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
MODERN HISTORY -- MAO ZEDONG, THE EARLY YEARS: A concise introduction from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK -- LU TING-YI -- LET FLOWERS OF MANY KINDS BLOSSOM, DIVERSE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTS CONTEND! 1956: A speech delivered by the Director of Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party about the Party's Policy on Art, Literature and Science.
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK -- CHINA GETS THE BOMB, 1964: The official statement of the Chinese government on October 16.
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK -- CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY -- THE LEADERS OF THE CPSU ARE THE GREATEST SPLITTERS OF OUR TIMES, FEB. 4, 1964: A criticism of the Soviet government during the Sino-Soviet Split.
MORNING SUN -- A FILM AND WEBSITE ABOUT CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Much more than a mere companion to the Independent Television Service documentary, this multimedia presentation offers an impressive introduction to China's Cultural Revolution (c. 1964-1976).
"MORNING SUN" DOCUMENTS CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION:
An "All Things Considered" radio interview with Carma Hinton, a filmmaker who
chronicled the Cultural Revolution.
MYTHS ABOUT MAOISM:
This site from the Maoist Internationalist Movement attempts to restore the
reputation of the Chinese communist leader.
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC AT 50:
A special 1999 report from BBC News.
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: A basic history of China from the time of its 1949 revolution based on the U.S. Army Area Handbook of Rinn-Sup Shinn and Robert L. Worden.
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA II: From the Great Leap Forward through to the end of 1965.
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA III: Surveys the Cultural Revolution.
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IV: A brief overview of the years 1976-82.
PICTURING POWER -- POSTERS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION:
An 1999 exhibit sponsored by the Huntington Archive at The Ohio State
University and assembled by historians Harriet Evans of the University of
Westminster, London and Jeffrey Wasserstrom of Indiana University.
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG: The second edition of the text published in Beijing in 1967.
REPUBLICAN CHINA II: The U.S. Army Area Handbook history traces the development of the antagonism between the Nationalists and the Communists in the interwar period.
SONGS OF CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION:
A selection of ten audio files from Wellesley political scientist Bill Joseph.
STEFAN
LANDSBERGER'S CHINESE PROPAGANDA POSTER PAGES:
A collection of some 1,700 posters spanning the five decades since 1949.
TIANANMEN -- THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE:
An extensive site that includes selected articles, book excerpts, posters,
photographs, music and video related to the 1989 protest movement.
: A 12-year retrospective on the 1989 democracy demonstrations and the
government putdown from CNN.
TIANANMEN SQUARE, 1989 -- THE DECLASSIFIED HISTORY:
A U.S. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book on the 1989 Chinese
protests.
TIANANMEN, APRIL-JUNE 1989: A pictorial history assembled to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the massacre.
VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF CHINA
'89: A commemoration
of the Tiananmen protests from China News Digest International.
: Although this is an extraordinarily extensive archive, most of the
texts have yet to be translated from the Chinese.
WELCOME TO MOMAO.COM: An artist's depictions of the Chinese leader.
NEWS REPORT,
First U.S.-China Ping-Pong Meeting, April 13, 1971: A brief audio clip
from the History Channel's Speech Archive.