Chinese Revolutionary history bibliography

[GracchusBabeuf]

Please add your suggestions for good books on the Chinese Revolution and related events anywhere from early twentieth century to the present and I'll add to the list in the OP.

Chinese revolutionary history bibliography:

Newer works


(2002) Mao: A Reinterpretation. Lee Feigon.
(2008) The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village. Dongping Han
(2008) Chinese Economic Development. Chris Bramall
(2009) Was Mao Really a Monster? Ed. Gregor Brinton and Lin Chun
Cushing, Lincoln and Tompkins, Ann. Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. (blurb)
Gao, Mobo C.F. The Battle for China's Past: Mao & The Cultural Revolution. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
Gao, Mobo C.F. Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Hinton, William. Through a Glass Darkly: American Views of the Chinese Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006.
_____ Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Lotta, Raymond. Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook. Chicago: Banner Press, 1994.
Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic. 3rd ed. New York: Free Press, 1999.
Xueping, Zhong, Zheng, Wang, and Bai, Di, eds. Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Older works


(1974) China: Science Walks on Two Legs.
(1975) Economic Management in China. Joan Robinson
(1970) The Chinese Road to Socialism. Wheelwright and McFarlane
Avakian, Bob. The Loss in China and the Revolutionary Legacy of Mao Tsetung. [speech] available from RCP Publications, Chicago, 1978.
Chen, Jack. A Year in Upper Felicity: Life in a Chinese Village During the Cultural Revolution New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1973.
_____ Inside the Cultural Revolution London: Sheldon Press, 1976.
Daubier, Jean. A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. New York: Random House, 1974.
Hinton, William. Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Horn, Joshua S. Away with All Pests: An English Surgeon in People's China, 1954-1969. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971.
Macciocchi, Maria Antonietta. Daily Life in Revolutionary China. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Myrdal, Jan. Report from a Chinese Village. New York: Signet, 1966.
Snow, Edgar. Red Star over China. New York: Grove Press, 1961.
_____ The Long Revolution. New York: Random House, 1972.
Suyin, Han. Wind in the Tower: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Rebolution 1949-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
Witke, Roxanne. Comrade Chiang Ching. Boston: Little Brown, 1977.
Zedung, Mao. A Critique of Soviet Economics. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977

DVD's



The Passion of the Mao
Morning Sun


Links

Articles:


Joseph Ball - Did Mao Really kill millions: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0906ball.htm (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.monthlyreview.org/0906ball.htm)
Hu De- The production of death in "Chinese Proportion": http://chinastudygroup.net/2009/10/t...orward-famine/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://chinastudygroup.net/2009/10/the-production-of-death-in-chinese-proportions-read-this-article-by-utsa-patnaik-on-the-great-leap-forward-famine/)
Dongping Han - Farmers, Mao, and discontent: http://www.monthlyreview.org/091214dongping.php (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.monthlyreview.org/091214dongping.php)
Utsa Patnaik - On measuring "famine" death: http://chinastudygroup.net/2003/09/o...nd-capitalism/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://chinastudygroup.net/2003/09/on-measuring-famine-deaths-different-criteria-for-socialism-and-capitalism/)
Dongping Han - The Great Leap Forward, the Culutral Revolution, and post Mao rural reforms: http://chinastudygroup.net/2003/04/t...mporary-china/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://chinastudygroup.net/2003/04/the-great-leap-famine-the-cultural-revolution-and-post-mao-rural-reform-the-lessons-of-rural-development-in-contemporary-china/)


Useful links:


http://chinastudygroup.net/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://chinastudygroup.net/)
http://www.monthlyreview.org/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.monthlyreview.org/)
http://www.thisiscommunism.org/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.thisiscommunism.org/)
http://www.mlmrsg.com/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.mlmrsg.com/)

[ComradeOm]

You might want to start here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/introducing-revleft-historical-t120423/index.html)

[GracchusBabeuf]

You might want to start here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/introducing-revleft-historical-t120423/index.html)
Thanks. That thread has some works suggested by an anti-Maoist member, but are useful nonetheless.

If there are secondary sources on the Chinese revolution written by sympathizers or non-anti-communists, that would be more interesting. The one source I suggested is an example of this.

[bailey_187]

China: Science walks on two legs
Wheelwright and McFarlane - The Chinese Road to Socialism
Dongping Han - The Unkown Cultural Revolution
Edgar Snow - China's long revolution
Joan Robinson - Economic managment in China
Chris Bramall - Chinese Economic Development

Here is the reading list from the "Setting the Record Straight" of the RCP:


RESOURCES
RECOMMENDED RECENT BOOKS

These books are recommended by Set the Record Straight; they are relatively recent and available at your local bookstore or Amazon. We welcome suggestions for this list; please include the complete citation and if possible, send us a short review of why you think the book should be included. We will add brief reader reviews to this page as we receive them.

Cushing, Lincoln and Tompkins, Ann. Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007. (blurb)
Feigon, Lee. Mao: A Reinterpretation. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
Gao, Mobo C.F. The Battle for China's Past: Mao & The Cultural Revolution. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
Gao, Mobo C.F. Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Hinton, William. Through a Glass Darkly: American Views of the Chinese Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006.
_____ Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Lotta, Raymond. Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook. Chicago: Banner Press, 1994.
Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic. 3rd ed. New York: Free Press, 1999.
Xueping, Zhong, Zheng, Wang, and Bai, Di, eds. Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.


RECOMMENDED OLDER BOOKS

These books were written during or shortly after the Mao years in China. They are harder to obtain although often available at the library or used book sellers. They are highly recommended by Set the Record Straight.

Avakian, Bob. The Loss in China and the Revolutionary Legacy of Mao Tsetung. [speech] available from RCP Publications, Chicago, 1978.
Chen, Jack. A Year in Upper Felicity: Life in a Chinese Village During the Cultural Revolution New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1973.
_____ Inside the Cultural Revolution London: Sheldon Press, 1976.
Daubier, Jean. A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. New York: Random House, 1974.
Hinton, William. Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Horn, Joshua S. Away with All Pests: An English Surgeon in People's China, 1954-1969. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971.
Macciocchi, Maria Antonietta. Daily Life in Revolutionary China. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Myrdal, Jan. Report from a Chinese Village. New York: Signet, 1966.
Snow, Edgar. Red Star over China. New York: Grove Press, 1961.
_____ The Long Revolution. New York: Random House, 1972.
Suyin, Han. Wind in the Tower: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Rebolution 1949-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
Witke, Roxanne. Comrade Chiang Ching. Boston: Little Brown, 1977.
Zedung, Mao. A Critique of Soviet Economics. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977

http://thisiscommunism.org/Resources.htm

[Uppercut]

Gao, Mobo C.F. The Battle for China's Past: Mao & The Cultural Revolution.
Gao, Mobo C.F. Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.


This. Mobo Gao does an excellent job of cleaning up any myths of "oppression" and "brainwashing" during the Cultural Revolution, as well as taking a few shots at Jung Chang's recount of the movement.

[GracchusBabeuf]

Got a good list in the OP. Can this be stickied, maybe?:thumbup1:

[bailey_187]

Comrade, Wheelwright and McFarlane did not write "China: Science walks on two legs", there is no noted auhor for this. On the spin on the book it says "Science for the people" - if this is the group of authors, i do not know. I thought listing that could also confuse the title.

Wheelwright and McFarlane wrote "The Chinese Road to Socialism" though.

I am also going to collect some articles for this.

You could also list DVDs:
The Passion of the Mao
Morning Sun*

*i havnt seen all of this, just a clip, however, it was made by William Hintons daughter or something so i think it will be good

[bailey_187]

I forget, there is another book "Was Mao Really a Monster". It is collection of articles

Articles:
Joseph Ball - Did Mao Really kill millions
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0906ball.htm

Hu De- The production of death in "Chinese Proportion"
http://chinastudygroup.net/2009/10/the-production-of-death-in-chinese-proportions-read-this-article-by-utsa-patnaik-on-the-great-leap-forward-famine/

Dongping Han - Farmers, Mao, and discontent
http://www.monthlyreview.org/091214dongping.php

Utsa Patnaik - On measuring "famine" death
http://chinastudygroup.net/2003/09/on-measuring-famine-deaths-different-criteria-for-socialism-and-capitalism/

Dongping Han - The Great Leap Forward, the Culutral Revolution, and post Mao rural reforms:
http://chinastudygroup.net/2003/04/the-great-leap-famine-the-cultural-revolution-and-post-mao-rural-reform-the-lessons-of-rural-development-in-contemporary-china/

Useful links:
http://chinastudygroup.net/
http://www.monthlyreview.org/
http://www.thisiscommunism.org/
http://www.mlmrsg.com/