1949-1976

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.

Chronicles the history of the cultural revolution that took place in China during the 1960s and 1970s, examining the innovation and creativity displayed in the films, operas, literature, art, and architecture from the decade.

Describes why, in 1953, Chairman Mao changed China's economic policies to Stalinist socialism and its effect on the nation and its people.

Explores the cultural revolution in China from 1966 to 1976, its effect on urban and rural society, the student Red Guard movements, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.

Briefly describes China's emergence as a major world power after 1949, industrial development, and the Cultural Revolution.

A memoir in which the author, the son of a county political official, recalls his middle-school years in China, discussing the impact of the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guard movement on young minds, and considering the conflict it caused between him and his father.