1949-1976

A collection of short stories by Ruoxi Chen that offer insight into China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

After losing his family's fortune in gambling dens and brothels, Fugui is forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family to witness the horrors of the Civil War, only to return years later to face the hardships brought on by the Cultural Revolution.

Traces the life of the revolutionary who led the struggle to make China a Communist nation in 1949 and unleashed the horror of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960's.

Two Chinese reporters present China-as seen through the eyes of over sixty of its own people.

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.

Presents an illustrated memoir of the author's upbringing in China in the 1960s, when Chairman Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution, covering his interest in drawing at an early age and the death of his grandfather.

A biography of the Chinese woman who, arrested during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, spent more than six years in solitary confinement and, despite severe punishment, refused to indict herself as a traitor.

The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution.

A biography of the man who transformed China from a culture steeped in ancient traditions into a revolutionary communist state.