May 15, 2016
Gerry Shih, Maoists Still a Force 50 Years after the Cultural Revolution
May 15, 2016
Guobin Yang, How the Chinese Cultural Revolution Came to an End
May 14, 2016
Chris Buckley, Fifty Years after the Cultural Revolution, a Son Awaits Answers on His Father's Death
May 11, 2016
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, How Will China Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution?
May 10, 2016
Ian Johnson, Q.&A.: Jeremy Brown on the Cultural Revolution at the Grassroots
May 6, 2016
Evan Osnos, The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, 50 Years Later
May 3, 2016
Helen Gao, Q.&A.: Roderick MacFarquhar on the Cultural Revolution and China Today
April 29, 2016
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China's Cultural Revolution (a review of two books)
April 19, 2016
A ChinaFile Conversation: Fifty Years Later, How Is the Cultural Revolution Still Present in Life in China?
April 4, 2016
Chris Buckley, Q.&A.: Xujun Eberlein on the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
January 26, 2016
Zha Jianying, China: Surviving the Camps (on Ji Xianlin's memoir)
July 20, 2015
Ian Johnson, Q.&A.: Andrew Walder on 'China Under Mao'
April 6, 2015
Evan Osnos, Born Red
December 4, 2014
Ian Johnson, China's Brave Underground Journal
Note: Please tweet me at @Yangguobin if you see recent pieces that are missing from my admittedly incomplete list here.
Some Additional Resources (a list of my favorites)
The best documentary film about the Cultural Revolution period is still Morning Sun.
The best short book on the Cultural Revolution is Richard Kraus's The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.
On the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a child, read Chun Yu's stunning verse narrative Little Green: Growing Up in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The best film on sent-down youth is the classic Youth Elegy (青春祭，1985), available here on YouTube but with no English subtitles.
My favorite English-language memoir on the Cultural Revolution is Rae Yang's Spider Eaters.
My favorite Chinese-language memoir about the Cultural Revolution is Zhou Ziren's Personal Story of a Red Guard Newspaper Editor (红卫兵小报主编自述) , published in 2006 to mark the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the CR. Here is a review by Hu Ping in Chinese.
My favorite online newsletters about the Cultural Revolution are Yesterday (昨天), collected here, and Remembrance (记忆), here. Both are in Chinese.
My favorite novel about sent-down youth is A Cheng's Chess Master.
Gerry Shih, Maoists Still a Force 50 Years after the Cultural Revolution
May 15, 2016
Guobin Yang, How the Chinese Cultural Revolution Came to an End
May 14, 2016
Chris Buckley, Fifty Years after the Cultural Revolution, a Son Awaits Answers on His Father's Death
May 11, 2016
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, How Will China Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution?
May 10, 2016
Ian Johnson, Q.&A.: Jeremy Brown on the Cultural Revolution at the Grassroots
May 6, 2016
Evan Osnos, The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, 50 Years Later
May 3, 2016
Helen Gao, Q.&A.: Roderick MacFarquhar on the Cultural Revolution and China Today
April 29, 2016
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China's Cultural Revolution (a review of two books)
April 19, 2016
A ChinaFile Conversation: Fifty Years Later, How Is the Cultural Revolution Still Present in Life in China?
April 4, 2016
Chris Buckley, Q.&A.: Xujun Eberlein on the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
January 26, 2016
Zha Jianying, China: Surviving the Camps (on Ji Xianlin's memoir)
July 20, 2015
Ian Johnson, Q.&A.: Andrew Walder on 'China Under Mao'
April 6, 2015
Evan Osnos, Born Red
December 4, 2014
Ian Johnson, China's Brave Underground Journal
Note: Please tweet me at @Yangguobin if you see recent pieces that are missing from my admittedly incomplete list here.
Some Additional Resources (a list of my favorites)
The best documentary film about the Cultural Revolution period is still Morning Sun.
The best short book on the Cultural Revolution is Richard Kraus's The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.
On the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a child, read Chun Yu's stunning verse narrative Little Green: Growing Up in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The best film on sent-down youth is the classic Youth Elegy (青春祭，1985), available here on YouTube but with no English subtitles.
My favorite English-language memoir on the Cultural Revolution is Rae Yang's Spider Eaters.
My favorite Chinese-language memoir about the Cultural Revolution is Zhou Ziren's Personal Story of a Red Guard Newspaper Editor (红卫兵小报主编自述) , published in 2006 to mark the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the CR. Here is a review by Hu Ping in Chinese.
My favorite online newsletters about the Cultural Revolution are Yesterday (昨天), collected here, and Remembrance (记忆), here. Both are in Chinese.
My favorite novel about sent-down youth is A Cheng's Chess Master.
