About the Speaker

Xiaobo Lü, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College.

Slides for Classroom Use

The Cultural Revolution in China- Presentation PDF [4 MB]

Teaching Guide

Outline & Key Points for Teachers

Background Reading and Classroom Material

Asia by Era Resources – China: 1950, Cultural Revolution [AFE]

Introduction to the Cultural Revolution [SPICE: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education]

China Under Mao [SPICE: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education]
11 min video presentation by Andrew Walder.

Books
Asia by Era Resources – China: 1950, Autobiographies, Novels, and Films about Life in China during and after the 1949 Revolution
See in particular Reading Gao Yuan’s Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution, Reading Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro’s Son of the Revolution, To Live by Yu Hua.

Novel

Freedom Swimmer
By Wai Chim
Scholastic, 2021
Freeman Book Award Winner, FBA Page

Autobiographies

The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By Ji Xianlin (translated by Chenxin Jiang)
New York Review of Books, 2022

Confessions of Red Guard: A Chinese Novelist Recounts His Experiences During China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
By Liang Xiaosheng (translated by Howard Goldblatt)
MerwinAsia, 2018

Born Red
By Gao Yuan
Stanford, 1987

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
By Ji Li Jiang
HarperCollins, 1997
Middle School level

Aftermath

Red Memory: The Afterlife of China’s Cultural Revolution
By Tania Branigan
Norton, 2023

Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China’s Great Cultural Revolution
By Anne Thurston
Knopf, 1987

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