1949-1976

A biography of Mao Tse Tung, communist China's powerful and contradictory leader, discussing his early life, and examining episodes in his communist revolution.

An account of Kidd's years in Peking before, during, and after the Revolution, when he was a husband to an aristocratic Chinese woman and an undesirable alien to a new regime.

Contains the autobiography of Liang Heng, a young man growing up in China in the 1950s during the Great Cultural Revolution.

Chronicles the life and career of Mao Zedong, discussing his work and a revolutionary general, his founding and leading of the world's largest nation, and his reputation as a brutal political manipulator.

The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

Excerpts from the diary of Yi Nan Zhang, a Beijing student who was sent to a Mongolian commune during the Cultural Revolution, which recount his experiences as a cowboy on the steppes.

A talented art student at the Academy of Fine Arts finds his life changed when he is labeled a counter-revolutionary and exiled during the Cultural Revolution in 1960s China.

A collection of fourteen first-person accounts selected and translated from: I pai ko jen ti shih nien.

Teenager Da Chen struggles to adapt to his new life at the University of Beijing while staying true to his heritage and his family's beliefs.

Describes the events and major figures of the Cultural Revolution in China.