CHINA IN THE 18TH, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
Good Chinese History Websites: 1) Chaos Group of University of Maryland chaos.umd.edu/history/toc ; 2) WWW VL: History China vlib.iue.it/history/asia ; 3) Wikipedia article on the History of China Wikipedia 4) China Knowledge; 5) Gutenberg.org e-book gutenberg.org/files ; Links in this Website: Main China Page factsanddetails.com/china (Click History)
Good Websites and Sources on the Opium War : Emperor of China’s War on Drugs Opioids.com ; Good Images from the Period on MIT’s Visualizing Cultures MIT’s Visualizing Cultures , MIT’s Visualizing Cultures , MIT’s Visualizing Cultures and MIT’s Visualizing Cultures ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Websites on the Qing Dynasty Wikipedia Wikipedia ; Qing Art cosmopolis.ch ; Qing Dynasty Explained drben.net/ChinaReport ; Recording of Grandeur of Qing learn.columbia.edu Court Life During the Time of Empress Dowager Cixi etext.virginia.edu
Books: 1) “ The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China “ by Julia Lovell (Picador, 2011); 2) “ China: Alive in the Bitter Sea” by Fox Butterfield; 3) “China: A New History” by John K. Fairbank; 4) “China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History” by Charles O. Hucker; 5) “In Search of Modern China” by Jonathan D. Spence; 6) “The Chan's Great Continent: China to Western Minds” by Jonathan Spence (Norton, 1998). 7) “ Cambridge History of China “ multiple volumes (Cambridge University Press); 8) “The Last Emperors: A Social History of the Qing Imperial Institutions” by Evelyn S. Rawski (University of California Press, 1999); 9) “Sea of Poppies” by Amitva Ghosh (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008) is a novel set during the Opium Wars mostly in India but also in China that was shortlisted listed for the Man Booker Prize. You can help this site a little by ordering your Amazon books through this link: Amazon.com.
Good Sources on 19th and 20th Century Shanghai and Expatriate History For information on Shanghai and China in the 19th century try the single letters column with letters about China in the British national newspapers like The Times at that time. Try the writings of people like Samuel Pollard, Grist, Samuel Clarke’s “ Among the Tribes in South-West China “ and so on, Edwin Dingle’s “ Across China on Foot “ online, masses of writings by traders and their families, visitors, diplomats, soldiers, journalists, missionaries, writers, artists. For some American attitudes of the time, no different from most of those of the British, take Justus Doolittte’s “ The Social Life of the Chinese “ , or Arthur Henderson Smith’s “ The Chinese Character “ which you can find online. There are lots of patronizing and condescending remarks about Chinese and their deviousness and corruption and concern for face and so on. [Source: Nicholas Tapp, Australian National University]
Also worth a look is Jane Hunter's seminal work, “ The Gospel of Gentility:American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China “ (Yale University Press, 1984); “ Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949 “ by Christian Henriot (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001); “ Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai “ by Gail Hershatter (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); “ Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 “ by Catherine Vance Yeh, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006); The Sing Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bing; Eileen Chang books (See Literature)
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Foreigners in China: 19th Century Tea Trade in China Harvard Business School ; Early Chinese Emmigrants to America: Central Pacific Railroad Museum cprr.org/Museum ; Chinese Americans Wikipedia Wikipedia ; Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Rebellion.com taipingrebellion.com ; Wikipedia Taiping Rebellion article Wikipedia ; Books About Taiping Rebellion questia.com; Boxer Rebellion National Archives archives.gov/publications ; Modern History Sourcebook fordham.edu/halsall ; San Francisco 1900 newspaper article Library of Congress ; Wikipedia Wikipedia ; Cox Rebellion PhotosCaldwell Kvaran ; Eyewitness Account fordham.edu/halsall ; Sino-Japanese War.com sinojapanesewar.com ; Wikipedia article on the Sino-Japanese War Wikipedia ;
Good Websites and Sources on Empress Dowager Cixi: Court Life During the Time of Empress Dowager Cixi etext.virginia.edu; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Cixi’s Luxurious Life xinhuanet.com ; Book on Cixi royalty.nu; The Last Emperor Puyi Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Time Asia time.com ; Hartford Courant hartford-hwp.com/archives; Puyi Biography royalty.nu/Asia
Forbidden City: FORBIDDEN CITY factsanddetails.com/china; Wikipedia; China Vista ; UNESCO World Heritage Site Sites World Heritage Site ; Maps China Map Guide ; Summer Palace Used by Cixi ; Wikipedia Beijing Trip.com ; Travel China Guide ; Map China Map Guide ; Summer Palace Factsanddetails.com/China
Good Websites and Sources on Early 20th Century China Sun Yat-sen Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Time Asia time.com ; My Grandfather Sun Yat-sen Asia Week ; May 4th Movement Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Chiang Kai-shek Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; New York Times Obituary New York Times ; Madame Chiang Kai-shek Wikipedia article Wikipedia ;
Zhu Shilin’s “ Sorrows of the Forbidden City “ (“The Secret History of the Qing Court,” 1948), the first important film made by a Han Chinese director about the Qing/Manchu court set during the Hundred Days” Reform. Li Han-hisang did a series of films on Empress Dowager Cixi.
RELATED ARTICLES IN THIS WEBSITE: MING- AND QING-ERA CHINA AND FOREIGN INTRUSIONS factsanddetails.com; OPIUM IN CHINA factsanddetails.com : OPIUM WARS AND THEIR LEGACY factsanddetails.com; FOREIGNERS AND CHINESE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES factsanddetails.com; HISTORY OF CHINESE AMERICANS AND IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES factsanddetails.com ; TAIPING REBELLION factsanddetails.com; SINO-JAPANESE WAR factsanddetails.com; BOXER REBELLION factsanddetails.com; EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI, HER LOVERS AND ATTEMPTED REFORMS factsanddetails.com; PUYI: THE LAST EMPEROR OF CHINA factsanddetails.com;REPUBLICAN CHINA, MAO AND THE EARLY COMMUNIST PERIOD factsanddetails.com; REFORMERS, MODERNIZATION AND REFORM EFFORTS IN CHINA IN THE LATE 1800s factsanddetails.com; OBSERVATIONS BY CHINESE ON LIFE IN THE WEST factsanddetails.com; THE 1911 REVOLUTION, SONG JIAOREN AND ATTEMPTS AT DEMOCRACY IN CHINA factsanddetails.com; KUOMINTANG AND CHINESE WARLORDS factsanddetails.com; SUN YAT-SEN AND REPUBLICAN CHINA factsanddetails.com; CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK factsanddetails.com
MAO AND THE EARLY CHINESE COMMUNISTS
Communist Party History Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Illustrated History of Communist Party china.org.cn ; Books and Posters Landsberger Communist China Posters
Mao Zedong Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Chinese Mao.com chinesemao.com ; Mao Internet Library marx2mao.com ; Paul Noll Mao site paulnoll.com/China/Mao ; Mao Quotations art-bin.com; Marxist.org marxists.org ; Propaganda Paintings of Mao artchina.free.fr ; New York Times topics.nytimes.com
Good Websites and Sources of People’s Republic of China : Timeline china-profile.com ; ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Cold War International Project wilsoncenter.org ; China Essay Series mtholyoke.edu ; Everyday Life in Maoist China.org everydaylifeinmaoistchina.org;
The Long March: Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Paul Noll site paulnoll.com ; Chinese Government Account of Events chinadaily.com; Long March Remembered china.org.cn ; Long March map china.org.cn
Books: 1) “Mao; the Untold Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. ; 2) “ The Penguin History of Modern China “ by Jonathan Fenby 3) . “Red Star Over China” by Edgar Snow; 4) “China: A New History” by John K. Fairbank; 5) “In Search of Modern China” by Jonathan D. Spence; 6) “The Chan's Great Continent: China to Western Minds” by Jonathan Spence (Norton, 1998). 7) “ Cambridge History of China “ multiple volumes (Cambridge University Press). 8) Jay Taylor The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009); 9) “Shark Fins and Millet” is an excellent depiction of China in the 1930s by Polish-born journalist Ilona Ralf Sues, who met up with Big-Eared Du and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. You can help this site a little by ordering your Amazon books through this link: Amazon.com.
RELATED ARTICLES IN THIS WEBSITE: REPUBLICAN CHINA, MAO AND THE EARLY COMMUNIST PERIOD factsanddetails.com; JAPAN IN CHINA: WAR AND OCCUPATION BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR II factsanddetails.com; EARLY CHINESE COMMUNIST IDEOLOGUES AND THEIR IDEAS AND GOALS factsanddetails.com; MAO ZEDONG, HIS EARLY LIFE AND RISE IN THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY factsanddetails.com; MAO ZEDONG’S EARLY IDEAS ABOUT MAOISM AND REVOLUTION factsanddetails.com; MAO ZEDONG AND GUERILLA TACTICS factsanddetails.com; LONG MARCH: HARDSHIPS, YENAN, MYTH AND REALITY factsanddetails.com; EDGAR SNOW'S ACCOUNT OF "THE LONG MARCH" factsanddetails.com; COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER CHINA factsanddetails.com; FAMOUS ESSAYS BY MAO ZEDONG AND OTHER CHINESE COMMUNISTS AS THEY TAKE POWER factsanddetails.com; EARLY COMMUNIST CHINA UNDER MAO factsanddetails.com; CHINA, THE KOREAN WAR, POWS, SPIES AND THE C.I.A. factsanddetails.com; CHINESE TAKEOVER OF TIBET IN THE 1950s factsanddetails.com; COMMUNES, LAND REFORM AND COLLECTIVISM IN CHINA factsanddetails.com; DAILY LIFE IN MAOIST CHINA factsanddetails.com; BAREFOOT DOCTORS AND HEALTH CARE IN THE MAO ERA factsanddetails.com; KARL MARX: HIS LIFE, IDEAS, BOOKS, HEGEL AND MARXISM factsanddetails.com; SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, CAPITALISM, LENINISM AND MAOISM factsanddetails.com
CHINA, THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION AND WORLD WAR II
Good Websites and Sources on China during the World War II Period: Wikipedia article on Sino-Japanese War Wikipedia ; Nanking Incident (Rape of Nanking) : Nanjing Massacre cnd.org/njmassacre ; Wikipedia Nanking Massacre article Wikipedia Nanjing Memorial Hall humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre ; CHINA AND WORLD WAR II Factsanddetails.com/China ; Good Websites and Sources on World War II and China : ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; U.S. Army Account history.army.mil; Burma Road book worldwar2history.info ; Burma Road Video danwei.org Books: "Rape of Nanking The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" by Chinese-American journalist Iris Chang; “China's World War II, 1937-1945" by Rana Mitter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013); “The Imperial War Museum Book on the War in Burma, 1942-1945" by Julian Thompson (Pan, 2003); “The Burma Road” by Donovan Webster (Macmillan, 2004). You can help this site a little by ordering your Amazon books through this link: Amazon.com.
LINKS IN THIS WEBSITE: JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF CHINA AND WORLD WAR II factsanddetails.com; JAPANESE COLONIALISM AND EVENTS BEFORE WORLD WAR II factsanddetails.com; JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF CHINA BEFORE WORLD WAR II factsanddetails.com; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR (1937-1945) factsanddetails.com; RAPE OF NANKING factsanddetails.com; CHINA AND WORLD WAR II factsanddetails.com; BURMA AND LEDO ROADS factsanddetails.com; FLYING THE HUMP AND RENEWED FIGHTING IN CHINA factsanddetails.com; JAPANESE BRUTALITY IN CHINA factsanddetails.com; PLAGUE BOMBS AND GRUESOME EXPERIMENTS AT UNIT 731 factsanddetails.com.
GREAT LEAP FORWARD AND REPRESSION AND DEATH UNDER MAO
REPRESSION AND DEATH UNDER MAO: Uncounted Millions, Washington Post article paulbogdanor.com ; Death Tolls erols.com People’s Republic of China : Timeline china-profile.com ; ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Cold War International Project wilsoncenter.org ; China Essay Series mtholyoke.edu ; Everyday Life in Maoist China.org everydaylifeinmaoistchina.org; Wikipedia article on propaganda Wikipedia ; Cultural Revolution sino.uni-heidelberg.de; Communist China Posters Landsberger Posters ; More Posters chinaposters.org ; Yet more posters Ann Tompkins and Lincoln Cushing Collection
Mao Zedong Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Chinese Mao.com chinesemao.com ; Mao Internet Library marx2mao.com ; Paul Noll Mao site paulnoll.com/China/Mao ; Mao Quotations art-bin.com; Marxist.org marxists.org ; Propaganda Paintings of Mao artchina.free.fr ; New York Times topics.nytimes.com; Communist Party History Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Illustrated History of Communist Party china.org.cn
Good Chinese History Websites: 1) Chaos Group of University of Maryland chaos.umd.edu/history/toc ; 2) WWW VL: History China vlib.iue.it/history/asia ; 3) Wikipedia article on the History of China Wikipedia 4) China Knowledge; 5) Gutenberg.org e-book gutenberg.org/files ; Links in this Website: Main China Page factsanddetails.com/china (Click History)
Books: The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957" by Frank Dikotter. “ Fanshen “ by William Hinton is the classic account of rural revolution during the communist-led civil war in the late 1940s. “China Witness, Voices from a Silent Generation” by Xinran (Pantheon Books, 2009) is collection of oral histories from Chinese who survived the Mao period. Lonng March books include “The Long March” by Edmund Jocelyn and Andree McEwen (2006) and “The Long March” by Sun Shuyun, based in accounts from 40 of 500 participants that were still alive in 2005. “Mao; the Untold Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Knopf. 2005). Jung Chang, author of “Wild Swans”, and her husband John Halliday, a British historian, portrays Mao as villain on the level of Hitler and Stalin. The book was read by U.S. President George Bush and embraced by the American right as a condemnation of Communism. It characterizes Mao as cruel, materialistic, self-centered and a leader who used terror with the aim of ruling the world. There is also a Mao biography by Jonathon Spence. Also check out: “ Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic “ by Chang-tai Hung (Cornell University Press, 2011) and “ The Private Life of Chairman Mao “ by Dr. Li Zhisui (1994). Other books: “ The Penguin History of Modern China “ by Jonathan Fenby 3) . “Red Star Over China” by Edgar Snow; 4) “China: A New History” by John K. Fairbank; 5) “In Search of Modern China” by Jonathan D. Spence; 6) “ Cambridge History of China “ multiple volumes (Cambridge University Press). You can help this site a little by ordering your Amazon books through this link: Amazon.com.
RELATED ARTICLES IN THIS WEBSITE: REPRESSION UNDER MAO, THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND NIXON factsanddetails.com; REPUBLICAN CHINA, MAO AND THE EARLY COMMUNIST PERIOD factsanddetails.com; MAO'S PERSONALITY CULT, LEADERSHIP AND MAOIST PROPAGANDA factsanddetails.com MAO'S PRIVATE LIFE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY factsanddetails.com; JIANG QING, LIN BIAO, ZHOU ENLAI factsanddetails.com; COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER CHINA factsanddetails.com; FAMOUS ESSAYS BY MAO ZEDONG AND OTHER CHINESE COMMUNISTS AS THEY TAKE POWER factsanddetails.com; EARLY COMMUNIST CHINA UNDER MAO factsanddetails.com; CHINA, THE KOREAN WAR, POWS, SPIES AND THE C.I.A. factsanddetails.com; CHINESE TAKEOVER OF TIBET IN THE 1950s factsanddetails.com; COMMUNES, LAND REFORM AND COLLECTIVISM IN CHINA factsanddetails.com; DAILY LIFE IN MAOIST CHINA factsanddetails.com; BAREFOOT DOCTORS AND HEALTH CARE IN THE MAO ERA factsanddetails.com; HUNDRED FLOWERS CAMPAIGN AND THE ANTI-RIGHTIST MOVEMENT factsanddetails.com; GREAT LEAP FORWARD: MOBILIZING THE MASSES, BACKYARD FURNACES AND SUFFERING factsanddetails.com; GREAT FAMINE OF MAOIST-ERA CHINA: MASS STARVATION, GRAIN EXPORTS, MAYBE 45 MILLION DEAD factsanddetails.com; TOMBSTONE AND RESEARCH OF THE GREAT FAMINE factsanddetails.com; CHINESE REPRESSION IN TIBET IN THE LATE 1950s AND EARLY 1960s factsanddetails.com
CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND NIXON
Good Websites and Sources on the Cultural Revolution Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution cnd.org ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Morning Sun morningsun.org ; Red Guards and Cannibals New York Times ; The South China Morning Post has produced a wonderful multimedia report on the Cultural Revolution. multimedia.scmp.com. Posters: Cultural Revolution posters at The Ohio State University online exhibition Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution and the University of Westminster Chinese Poster Collection huntingtonarchive.org ]
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Books on the Cultural Revolution: "The Cultural Revolution: A People's History” by Frank Dikotter (Bloomsbury 2016); “The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution” by Ji Xianlin (New York Review Books, 2016); "Wild Swans” by Jung Chang, an international bestseller; “Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of the Cultural Revolution” and “One Hundred People's Ten Years” by Feng Jicai. “The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Cultural Revolution” by Chen Jo-his; Life and “Death in Shanghai” by Nien Chang; “Enemies of the People” by Anne F. Thurston.
“Colors of the Mountain” by Da Chen (Random House, 2000) is a coming-of-age set in the Cultural Revolution. It was described by Newsweek as "surprisingly free of cynicism or bitterness...all the more poignant by the wonder and vulnerability in the voice of their child narrator." “The Lily Theater: A Novel of Modern China” by Lulu Wang is an entertaining and interesting depiction of the Cultural Revolution originally written in Dutch by a Chinese woman with a strong, eccentric voice.
The human costs of the Cultural Revolution have been best captured by Simon Leys (the pen-name of the Belgian sinologist and literary critic Pierre Ryckmans) in his books "Chinese Shadows" (1974) and "The Burning Forest" (1987). "Voice from the Whirlwind" by Feng Jicai is a collection of oral histories from the Cultural Revolution. Also worth a look is "My Name is Number 4: A True Story of the Cultural revolution" by Ting-Xing Ye (Thomas Dunne, 2008). Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Cultural Revolution can be found in “Red Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution,” edited by Robert Pledge and published by Phaidon Press in 2016.
“ Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 “ (Walker & Co, 2010) by Frank Dikotter is an excellent book. “Tombstone” by Yang Jisheng, a Xinhua reporter and Communist party member, is the first proper history of the Great Leap Forward and the famine of 1959 and 1961. “ Life and Death Are Wearing me Out “ by Mo Yan (Arcade,2008) is narrated by a series of animals that witnessed the Land Reform Movement and Great Leap Forward. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957" by Frank Dikotter described the Anti-Rightist period. “China Witness, Voices from a Silent Generation” by Xinran (Pantheon Books, 2009) is collection of oral histories from Chinese who survived the Mao period. “Mao; the Untold Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Knopf. 2005). Jung Chang, author of “Wild Swans”, and her husband John Halliday, a British historian, portrays Mao as villain on the level of Hitler and Stalin. The book was read by U.S. President George Bush and embraced by the American right as a condemnation of Communism. It characterizes Mao as cruel, materialistic, self-centered and a leader who used terror with the aim of ruling the world. There is also a Mao biography by Jonathon Spence. Also check out: “ Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic “ by Chang-tai Hung (Cornell University Press, 2011) and “ The Private Life of Chairman Mao “ by Dr. Li Zhisui (1994). Other books: “ The Penguin History of Modern China “ by Jonathan Fenby 3) . “Red Star Over China” by Edgar Snow; 4) “China: A New History” by John K. Fairbank; 5) “In Search of Modern China” by Jonathan D. Spence; 6) “ Cambridge History of China “ multiple volumes (Cambridge University Press). You can help this site a little by ordering your Amazon books through this link: Amazon.com.
Jiang Qing Wikipedia article Wikipedia Lin Biao Marxist.org marxists.org ; CNN cnn.com/SPECIALS ; Zhou Enlai Wikipedia article Wikipedia
Nixon in China: Nixon’s Visit to China chizeng.com/nixon ; Time magazine time.com ; The New Yorker newyorker.com ; Webcast of Nixon Visit to China cfr.org ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Mao’s Mausoleum Wikipedia ; News of Mao’s Death BBC . Book: Ping-pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World” by Nicholas Griffin, Scribner, (Simon & Schuster), 2014.
AFTER MAO, DENG XIAOPING AND TIANANMEN SQUARE
Good Websites and Sources on Deng Xiaoping: Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Life of Deng Xiaoping cbw.com ; CNN Profile cnn.com ; New York Times Obituary nytimes.com ; China Daily Profile chinadaily.com. ; Wikipedia article on Economic Reforms in China Wikipedia ; Wikipedia article on Special Economic Zones Wikipedia .
Good Websites and Sources on the Tiananmen Square Protests: Graphic pictures christusrex.org and christusrex.org ; Tiananmen Square Documents gwu.edu/ ; Gate of Heavenly Peace tsquare.tv ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; BBC Eyewitness Account news.bbc.co.uk Film: “ The Gate of Heavenly Peace” has been praised for its balanced treatment of the Tiananmen Square Incident. Gate of Heavenly Peace tsquare.tv.
Books Abour Deng Xiaoping: ” Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China “ by Ezra F. Vogel (Belknap/Harvard University, 2011); “Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping” by Richard Baum (1996, Princeton University Press); “China After Deng Xiaoping: The Power Struggle in Beijing Since Tiananmen” by Willy Wo-lap Lam (1995, P.A. Professional Consultants); “Deng Xiaoping” by Uli Franz (1988, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich); “Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography” by David S.G. Goodman (1994, Routledge); “Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire” by Ruan Ming (1994, Westview Press); “Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China” by Richard Evans 1993, Hamish Hamilton); “Deng Xiaoping: My Father” by Deng Maomao (1995, Basic Books); “Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman” edited by David Shambaugh (1995, Clarendon Paperbacks); “The New Emperors: Mao and Deng — a Dual Biography” by Harrison E. Salisbury (1992, HarperCollins). Books about Modern China worth reading include “The Search for Modern China” by Jonathan Spence, “China-Alive in a Bitter Sea” by Fox Butterfield, “To Get Rich is Glorious” by Orville Schell, “The New Emperors” by Harrison Salisbury, “Coming Alive-China After Mao” by Roger Garside and “The Dragon Wakes” by Christopher Hibbert. You can help this site a little by ordering your Amazon books through this link: Amazon.com.
Books About Tiananmen Square: Timothy Brook’s “Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement” is regarded as the most complete book on Tiananmen Square. According to Ian Johnson it is “a work by a classically trained historian who turned his powers of analysis and fact-digging on the massacre. Even though Brook’s book doesn’t include some important works published in the 2000s (especially the memoirs of then Party secretary Zhao Ziyang and a compilation of leaked documents known as The Tiananmen Papers), Quelling the People remains the best one-volume history of the events in Beijing.” One should also note the works of Wu Renhua, a Tiananmen participant and author of several Chinese-language works, as well as a a book by Jeremy Brown of Simon Fraser University.
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JIANG ZEMIN AND XI JINPING
Jiang Zemin: Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; New York Times articles about Jiang Zemin nytimes.com ; real Sory of Jiang Zemon epochtimes.com ; Photos of Jiang Zemin english.people.com ;
Hu Jintao: BBC Profile news.bbc.co.uk ; Time Person of the Year Runner Up 2007 time.com ; Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; PRC Profile english.gov.cn ; CIA List of Current World Leaders /www.cia.gov/library
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