Secondary Sources

Sources that were written recently and was not written during the event of that time.

Books:

This book was about a young boy; Da Chen growing up during the Cultural Revolution and faced many dangers because his family did not belong in the Communist Party.  This really helped me in how the situation was like in China at the time.

     This book had much explanation about the Cultural Revolution.  It also explained much information about the Socialist and the Marxism idea used in Communist China and eventually, the Cultural Revolution in 1966.  Very useful in content.  

   This had described Confucius and all of China 's history in detail.  This also expresses China ’s history from the ancient times to the revolutionary era.  This also included great pictures and sources of information of how China went from a series of chaos to revolutionary China .

In this book, Red Scare mainly showed how the United States took a stand against Communism, especially after the Chinese Communists took over the government in Mainland China in 1949.  There were people who had a phobia and feared the Communist spread throughout the free world.  

   This book had a lot of information mostly on the Revolution during 1966-1976 and the Post-Revolution period.  The Marxism principle by Karl Marx was expressed and that the Capitalist system was a doomed system that there needed to be change not only for the society, but also for the world.

 

 

      This book had much information about how democratic countries like the United States had used Anti-Communist propaganda to go against Communism.  In addition, this source shows variety of pictures, movies and plays that the U.S. had made to going against Communism. 

 

   

This Political cartoon book had shown a variety of Propaganda methods that were often used in Newspaper articles, the media, as well as on many of the posters.  This also included the Anti-Chinese Propaganda and the United States Propaganda going against what China was doing at the time, which was expansion of Communism. 

 

 

      This book was about a girl named Ji Li who lived in China during the Cultural Revolution.  Since her family was so-called, “Counter revolutionists,” her father was condemned in front of many people.  Ji Li had the courage to live through this chaotic time of history in China .  It has great personal information about how people faced the situation during the time.

This book was especially useful in explaining the idea of Marxism and his use of propaganda that eventually took the destructive toll of many people.  It shows that the idea of Marxism came from Karl Marx, a German philosopher.  This book expressed the ideas of Socialism and the Capitalist system was a doomed system that needed to be changed.

      This book had so much information on how the Revolution first emerged in China in the late 1800's.  There was a great explanation of the Confucius society, the Father of the Cultural Revolution, Sun Yatsun; the person who brought up the Marxism principle, and Mao who had used the principle.  This eventually brought China to corruption in its economy and politics.

     This book had its focus on how the Chinese society was under the Communism Rule.  It showed how communication had affected people in various ways.  This was because of the fact that Mao had used Propaganda in telling people that Communist and socialist systems are the best to use in China .  This eventually led to the Revolutionary era of 1966.

    This source had very useful facts about the destructive causes of the Cultural Revolution.  The economy of China during the Great Leap Forward was addressed in this book.  Mao had used the techniques to get people enthusiastic about beating the world in economy.  It also explained the collapse of the economy and its rebuilding in the later years.

         This book had many issues on the idea that Mao had taught the people, especially the younger generation to go against the authority, the rich, and the educated.  This was a very detailed and useful article.  This was because of the fact that it showed that the bourgeoisie and the educated were needed to be eliminated according to the Marxism principle.

        This book mainly talked about the Communist Party and Mao's use of Propaganda.  This book was very useful in a way in which the party viewed the people who were educated, skills, and with Western-Intellectual thinking with great suspicion.

 

      This source had the propaganda the United States had used during World War I & II, Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the Cold War.  This book showed many pictures that portrayed Communism as “bad” and particularly made fun of Chinese Communism.  This source was very useful. 

 

      This book had great information on the political cartoon that the United States had used in making fun of enemies they were going against such as Germany , Russia , and China .  In this book, it showed a lot of propaganda pictures making fun of the Chinese propaganda and Chinese Communism.  According to this book, these political cartoons made the people in the United States more aware of what was going on in China and to be on the lookout. 

   This picture book had many pictures of people before, during, and after the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the author, Marc Riboud, took all of the pictures.  Marc Riboud had permission from the Chinese government to come into the country and take pictures of the events of that time. 

     This Press article had many details about the Communist China, Mao's death, and the Gang of Four who took over.  It had also explained about the Gang of Four’s arrest case and were all accused of almost destroying China ’s economy and Culture as a whole.  This was very useful in explaining the conclusion of the Revolution. 

         This book had some information on the Chinese History up to the late 19th Century.  It had also very interesting facts about Confucianism and how it led to Sun Yatsun thinking that it should be changed to Socialism system.  This led to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

 

Internet Sites

 

This had much information about varieties of sources that I needed.  There were varieties of pictures.  In addition, there were facts about most of Cultural Revolution and how it had started with the Great Leap Forward.  The Great Leap Forward was an attempt of Mao to try to get the people’s enthusiasm for China ’s economy, but failed. 

This site was great in explaining Mao's life and his rule.  This also showed how people went through the Great Leap Forward with great enthusiasm and was able to believe that Mao can be a good leader.  Overall, this book explained most about the disastrous effect of the Great Leap Forward that took place in the 1950’s

This online reference library had many facts about the Revolution and its propaganda.  It also has the history of China from the ancient times to the modern Revolutionary times including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of 1966.  This mostly explained about China ’s history in general.

This was a good website for viewing video clips of the Cultural Revolution.  In addition, there were audio sounds that I had used for my website, which was very useful in that way.  The audio sound that I had used match the time period of the Cultural Revolution in China .  There were also other media video clips that has songs about praising Mao, short clips of parades through the Tiananmen Square where people would be so enthusiastic. 

   This website had very useful biography on Mao Zedong's life as well as his Quotations on how China should be.  The Quotations that were in this site was from the “Mao’s Little Red Book.” Mao had expressed that Communist was the best way for China because China would prosper that way.

There was a lot of information mostly about the Cultural Revolution that had started in 1966 and the turmoil that started to occur.  It was mainly based on the chaos that Mao had caused to simply let the “Red Guards” get out of control.  There were much burning of religious items, churches, as well as the torturing and beatings of other people.  This is much expressed in this site.

This is about a political prisoner, Wei, Jingsheng that was suppressed during Mao's rule.  This person had believed in democracy, and a Capitalist economy that would eventually benefit all of the people in China .  It was because of his personal opinions that he was arrested.  This also includes a biography during the Cultural Revolution when he hides.

This had much information about Mao's use on propaganda.  This site was much useful because of the fact that there were many propaganda posters in this site.  There were posters portraying Mao as the “Peasant’s” god and showed that China can do this movement all together.  Mao had made the posters especially during the Great Leap Forward. 

There were pictures of the location of where Mao made his speeches and where many people had gathered for Mao’s speeches and festivals.  In addition, this was also a virtual museum online for the Chinese culture.

This is a Virtual museum for the Cultural Revolution in China and has other documents.  This also has the Quotations of Mao from the Mao’s Little Red Book.  This tells us how propaganda spread using the methods of the Red Book, posters, radio, speech rallies, propagandist plays that portray Mao as a great leader.

       This website had many great facts about the Cultural Revolution.  This is also another online reference for the Cultural Revolution.  This mainly showed the history of China and how it happened from the start, in which is Sun Yatsun who had expressed the Marxism principle to China .

This site had great information about Mao's life.  Another online reference from Wikipedia.com. This showed Mao’s family and the past wars of what Mao had accomplished far before the Cultural Revolution.  It showed how Mao had attempted to overthrow China and set up the Communist party.

 This article expresses the students attacking their teachers during the uprisings.  As I went through this source, I was shocked to see that the students would actually go against their teachers and parents just for not having their Red Book one day.  This article can be sure shocking.

 

 

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