Interviewees

•        Mr. Donovan Bee.  Personal Interview. 1, December 2004.  Vietnam War Veteran and is currently History Teacher living in Riverside , California . Donavan was part of the US army during the Cultural Revolution and was fighting in Vietnam during that time.  After the war, he went to college and became history teacher and he is still living in the United States today.

•        Mrs. Yuming Cheng: Personal Interview.  26, March 2005.  Yuming Cheng is around 72 years old and was in her 40’s when the Cultural Revolution had started in 1966.  She was a real peasant who lived back in the countryside.  She says that everyone had worked together; everyone ate together at the same time.  From her experience during the Cultural Revolution, she decided to moved to the United States so that she can have a better life than what she had in China .

•         Mr. Michael Dohr:  Personal Interview.  25, December 2004.  Mike Dohr has been teaching high school history for 25 years and still enjoys the daily challenge of getting students to engage in events outside of their time and place. He was a teacher-facilitator for the Inland Area History-Social Studies project out of Cal State San Bernardino for seven years and served in that same role in summer, 2004, with the "Teaching American History for 21st Century Citizens" project with the Los Angeles County Office of Education. He was named Jurupa Unified School District 's "Teacher of the Year" in 2001. He was chosen as one of fifty American teachers to travel to Japan under the Toyota International Teachers Program, also in 2001. He has taught as an adjunct history instructor at Riverside Community College since 1986. He currently teaches at Rubidoux High School in Riverside, CA  

•        Mr. Shouichi Iwasaki.  Personal Interview: Phone.  4, December 2004.  My Grandfather, lived through all of the wars in the 20th Century, Businessman, is currently retired, and still living today in Tokyo , Japan. 

•        Mrs. Qianwei Tan: Personal Interview.  11, February 2005.  Qianwei was born in Shanghai and was a elementary schoolgirl when the Cultural Revolution had started.  In 1972, she was sent to the countryside to be reeducated by the peasant farmers.  When the Cultural Revolution had ended, she took the test; she was able to get into the University.  After schooling, she taught surgery and eventually moved the United States after marriage.  

•        Mr. Dong Wu: Personal Interview.  11, February 2005.  Dong was a high school senior during the Cultural Revolution.  He was born near Beijing and since he was a brilliant student, after the Cultural Revolution had ended, he passed the exam to go to college.  He eventually moved to the United States and majored PhD. in Microbiology.  He now lives with his family in Riverside , California .

•        Mrs. Susan Yi: Personal Interview.  29, March 2005.  Susan was born in 1944 near Beijing and was 22 years old when the Cultural Revolution had erupted in China in 1966.  She worked for the Communist Party as a doctor and followed wherever they went during the duration of the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976.  After the Cultural Revolution, she still lives in China to this day, while the rest of her family moved to the United States .  

Books:

• Loh, Robert Escape from Red China. New York: Tauris Publishing, 1962

 This book was about how the author escapes from Communist China and describes the repressive daily lives of the people.  The causes of Propaganda and its descriptions are thoroughly described through this book.   

• Macciocchi, Maria Daily Life in Revolutionary China. New York: Millbrook Press, 1972

     This is a true story on Maria Antoinette Macciocchi who comes from France to China and witnesses many of Mao's use of propaganda.  This book was particularly useful in how the effective way of Communication; Propaganda was used to manipulate the peoples' thinking and ideas. 

Periodicals

• Zedong, Mao Handbook on People’s China: Peking , New York: New York Foreign Language Press, 1957,1974

     This was the actual translation on "Mao's Little Red Book." This explained much about how Capitalists and the bourgeoisie be suppressed.  This was also very effective in communicating the words to the youth to go against their authorities.  This really helped me understand what Mao's propaganda was all about.