文革 [Cultural Revolution]

This page features book reviews and critical essays on the historiography of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

The essays and reviews here were written by UCSD students in the fall of 2002. Further Cultural Revolution-focused research by UCSD students may be found in The Cultural Revolution as History (2006).

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Book Reviews
Reviews appear in chronological order of the book’s publication date.

Ken Ling. The Revenge of Heaven: From Schoolboy to “Little General” in Mao’s Army. Miriam London and Lee Ta-ling, trans. New York: Putnam, 1972.

William Hinton. Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1973.

David Milton and Nancy Dall Milton. The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China, 1964-1969. New York: Pantheon, 1976.

Roxane Witke. Comrade Chiang Ch’ing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.

Hong Yung Lee. The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Case Study. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

Ruth Earnshaw Lo and Katherine S. Kinderman. In the Eye of the Typhoon. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

Stanley Rosen. Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou. Westview Replica Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 1982.

Jonathan Unger. Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

William Hinton. Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village. New York: Random House, 1983.

Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. Son of the Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1984.

Yue Daiyun and Carolyn Wakeman. To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Richard Curt Kraus. Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Jiang Pei 江沛. Hongweibing kuangbiao 红卫兵狂飙 [Red Guard Hurricane]. Zhengzhou: Henan renmin chubanshe, 1994.

Michael Schoenhals, Ed. China’s Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun. Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.

Xiaomei Chen. Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.

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Historiographical Essays

Jeremy Brown, “Putting Culture Back into the Cultural Revolution: Shifting Scholarly Views of Chinese Art and Culture, 1977-2002”

Dahpon D. Ho, “Omnipotent God-Emperor or Simply the Spark on a Tinderbox? The Primacy of Mao in Cultural Revolution Historiography”

Jun Zhang, “The Dynamics of Red Guard Factionalism: Social Interpretation and Political Explanation”

Xiaowei Zheng, “A Critique: The Origins and Divisions of the Red Guard Movement, 1966-1968”