If you require any of these books and articles, then please contact Mr. Budd for copies and help in tracking them down:
Cultural Revolution
- Central Committee. (1966). Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Peking: Foreign Language Press
- Chan, A. (1985). Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism in the Red Guard Generation. Seattle: University of Washington Press
- Chan, A., Rosen, S., & Unger, J. (1980). Students and Class Warfare: The Social Roots of the Red Guard Conflict in Guangzhou. The China Quarterly, 83(September 1980), 397-446
- Chang, T.H. (1999). China during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976: A Selected Bibliography of English Language Works. Westport, London: Greenwood Press
- Gao, M. (2008). The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. London: Pluto Press
- Gray, J., & Cavendish, P. (1968). Chinese Communism in Crisis: Maoism and the Cultural Revolution. New York: Frederick A. Praeger
- Jian, G., Song, Y., & Zhou, Y. (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lanham, ML: Scarecrow Press
- Joseph, W.A., Wong, C.P.W., & Zweig, D. (eds.). (1991). New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
- Lee, H.Y. (1978). The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Case Study. Berkeley: University of California Press
- Pye, L.W. (1986). Reassessing the Cultural Revolution. The China Quarterly, 108(December 1986), 597-612
- Thurston, A.F. (1987). Enemies of the People. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
- Tsou, T. (1986). The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms: A Historical Perspective. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
- Xinyan, L. (1994). A Step Toward Understanding Popular Violence in China's Cultural Revolution. Pacific Affairs, 67(4), 533-563
- Zhong, X., Zhen, W., & Di, B. (eds.). (2001). Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Democracy Movement
- Brook, T. (1992). Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement. New York: Oxford University Press
- He, R. X. (2014). Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China. Palgrave Studies in Oral History
- Lim, L. (2014). The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Unger, J., & Barme, G. (1991). The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe
- Zhao, D. (2001). The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Wasserstrom, J. N., & Elizabeth, J.P. (1994). Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China. Boulder: Westview Press
Deng Xiaoping
- Baum, R. (1994). Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Chan, A., Madsen, R., & Unger, J. (1992). Chen Village under Mao and Deng: Expanded and Updated Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press
- Goldman, M., & MacFarquhar, R. (eds.). (1999). The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms. Boston: Harvard University Press
- Pantsov, A.V., & Levine, S.I. (2015). Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Vogel, E. (2013). Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. New York: Belknap Press
Economics, Politics and Society
- Barry, N. (2007). The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
- Schurman, F. (1973). Ideology and Organisation in Communist China. London: Cambridge University Press
- Shapiro, J. (2001). Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Weatherley, R. (2006). Politics in China since 1949: Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule. London: Routledge
Foreign Policy
- Chi-Kwan, M. (2012). China and the World since 1945: An International History. London: Routledge
- Jian, C. (2001). Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press
- Luthi, L.M. (2010). The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World. Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Westad, O.A. (1998). Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Stanford: Stanford University Press
- Salisbury, H.E. (1969). War between Russia and China. New York: Norton
General Overviews of China 1949-2000
- Bown, C. & Edwards, T. (1974). Revolution in China 1911-1949: Heinemann History Broadsheets. London: Heinemann
- Fairbank, J.K. (1998). The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985. London: Pan Books
- Fairbank, J.K, & Goldman, M. (2006). China: A New History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- Fenby, J. (2008). Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present. New York: Harper Collins.
- Fielding, M., & Morcombe, M. (2008). The Spirit of Change: China in Revolution. North Ryde: McGraw-Hill
- Gittings, J. (1999). China through the Sliding Door: Reporting Three Decades of Change. London: Touchstone
- Hsu, I. C.Y. (2000). The Rise of Modern China (6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press
- Karl, R.E. (2010). Mao Zedong and China in the 20th Century World: A Concise History. Durham: Duke University Press
- Lynch, M. (2010). Access to History: The People's Republic of China 1949-76 (2nd ed.). London: Hodder Education
- Meisner, M. (1999). Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic (3rd ed.). New York: The Free Press
- Mitter, R. (2008). Modern China: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Spence, J.D. (1990). The Search for Modern China. London: W.W. Norton & Company
Great Leap Forward
- Bachman, D. (1991). Bureacracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Becker, J., & Rogers, D. (1996). Hungary Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. New York: Free Press
- Chan, A.L. (2001). Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Dikotter, F. (2010). Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962. New York: Walker & Co
- Thaxton, R. (2008). Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward - Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Yang, J., Friedman, E., Guo, J., & Mosher, S. (2012). Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hundred Flowers Movement
- Chen, T.H. (1960). Thought Reform of the Chinese Intellectuals. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
- MacFarquhar, R. (1960). The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals. New York: Praeger
- Mu, F-S. (1963). The Wilting of the Hundred Flowers: The Chinese Intelligentsia under Mao. New York: Praeger
Journal Articles
- Lynch, M. (2002). Mao Zedong: Liberator or Oppressor of China. History Review, 43 (September), History Today
- Smith, S. (2003). Coming to Terms with the Past. History Today, 53 (12)
- Thompson, R. (1997). Democracy and Dissonance. History Today, 47
Mao Zedong
- Benton, G. (ed.). (2008). Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution: Vol 1 - Policies and Strategies, 1919-49. London: Routledge
- Benton, G., & Chun, L. (eds.). (2010). Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story. London: Routledge
- Chang, J., & Halliday, J. (2005). Mao: The Unknown Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
- Lynch, M. (2004). Mao. London: Routledge
- McFarquhar, R., Cheek, T., & Wu, E. (1989). The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the GLF. Harvard
- Pantsov, A.V., & Levine, S.I. (2012). Mao: The Real Story. New York: Simon & Schuster
- Schram, S. (1989). The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Short, P. (1999). Mao: A Life. London: Continuum International Publishing Group
- Spence, J. (1999). Mao. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Walder, A.G. (2015). China under Mao: A Revolution Derailed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- Zhisui, L. (1994). The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician. New York: Random House
Scar Literature
- Chang, J. (1991). Wild Swans. London: Harper Collins
- Cheng, N. (1984). Life and Death in Shanghai. London: Grafton Books
- Li, C. (2003). Mao's Last Dancer. Australia: Viking/Penguin
- Min, A. (1993). Red Azalea. London: Victor Gollancz
- Wu, N. (1993). A Single Tear. London: Hodder & Stoughton
- Wu, H. (1994). Bitter Winds. New York: Wiley & Sons
- Ye, T-X. (1998). A Leaf in the Bitter Wind. Australia: Penguin
- Ye, W., & Ma, X. (2005). Growing Up in the People's Republic: Conversations between Two Daughters of China's Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Zhai, Z. (1992). Red Flower of China. New York: Soho Press
Source Books
- Blaustein, A.P. (1962). Fundamental Legal Documents of Communist China. South Hackensack: NJ: F.B. Rothman
- Cheng, P., Lestz, M.E., & Spence, J.D. (1999). The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection. New York: Norton
- Ebrey, P.B. (1993). Chinese Civilisation: A Source Book (2nd ed). New York: The Free Press
- Feng, J. (1996). Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution. San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals
- Gentzler, J. M. (1977). Changing China: Readings in the History of China from the Opium War to the Present. New York: Praeger
- Saich, T., & Yang, B. (1996). The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party: Documents and Analysis. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe
- Zhou, X. (2012). The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History. New Haven: Yale University Press