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Jan 19, 2021 · Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today.
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47 authors created a book list connected to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and here are their favorite Chinese Cultural Revolution books.
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang.
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie.
- Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out Mo Yan.
- Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng.
Mar 31, 2008 · A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966–1976).
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- Paul Clark
- On China by Henry Kissinger. “In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape.
- Waiting: A Novel by Ha Jin. “Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly shifting politics of the moment.
- From Tea to Coffee: The Journey of an “Educated Youth” by Cheng Wang. “From Tea to Coffee is the story of struggle and triumph during China’s modern-day cultural and political drama, and is a rare and personal account that showcases the Chinese national psyche.
- Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America by Weijian Shan. Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.
In China’s Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings.
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Apr 1, 2008 · As a book about land reform and Maoism, it is much, much less than prophetic. Hinton leaves us with a warm, post revolutionary feeling that all was well in the Chinese countryside in 1948. But all was not well. Tens of millions of Chinese peasants starved to death in the 1950s.
- William Hinton, Fred Magdoff
