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Book SynopsisMao Zedong launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" 30 years ago. This documentary history of the event presents a selection of key primary documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Introduction, Map of China, Part I. Intentions and Means, A. Pronouncements by Members of the CCP Leadership, 1. Just a Few Words, 2. Why a Cultural Revolution?, 3. Mao Zedong Thought Is the Sole Criterion of Truth, B. Official Policy, 4. Decision Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 5. In Praise of the Red Guards, 6. Regulations Forbidding the Use of Military Force to Suppress the Revolutionary Student Movement, 7. Regulations on Strengthening Public Security Work in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 8. Decision to Provide the Revolutionary Masses of the Left with the Firm Support of the People's Liberation Army, 9. Public Notice Banning Nationwide Organizations, 10. Public Notice Concerning Workers' Organizations, 11. No Ethnic Mass Organizations, 12. Letter to Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants and Cadres at All Levels in Rural People's Communes All Over the Country, 13. On the Revolutionary Three-in-One Combination, 14. Learn from the Liberation Army in Political Work, 15. Notification Concerning the Resumption of Classes to Make Revolution in Universities, Middle Schools, and Elementary Schools, 16. Notification Concerning Work Assignments for University Graduates in 1968, 17. Opinions and Questions Concerning the Reconsolidation, Revitalization, and Rebuilding of the Party Organization, 18. Instructions on Cracking Down on Counter-Revolutionary Destructive Activities, Part II. Effects and Consequences, C. Purging the Party, 19. Annihilate Every Renegade, 20. Interrogation Record: Wang Guangmei, 21. On Case Examination Work, 22. Bo Yibo Has an Attitude Problem, D. Making Rebellion, 23. Rebels in Shanghai, 24. As I Watched Zhou Tianxing and Lu Wen Sweep the Floor, 25. On Hunger Strike to Protest Illegal Political Persecution, 26. I Saw Chairman Mao!!!, 27. Dearest Chairman Mao: What Are You Doing?, 28. Proletarian Dictatorship and Proletarian Extensive Democracy, 29. An Open Letter to Comrade Lin Biao, 30. It's OK to Touch Your Soul, 31. As We Watched Them Beat Him ... , 32. Chinese Molestation of Diplomats, 33. Dear Parents, ... Don't Worry About Me!, 34. After-School Activities of Middle School and Elementary School Students, 35. I Support My Child in Taking the Revolutionary Road, 36. In Another Twenty Years, the World Will Belong to Us!, E. Revolutionary Culture, 37. Truckload of Big Buddhas ... Smiling, 38. Revolutionary Aphorisms, 39. Why Do Some People Call Me Foolish?, 40. Reforming the Fine Arts, 41. Gardens and Parks Must Serve the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, 42. Red Guard Tabloids Are Great Things!, 43. Vigorously and Speedily Eradicate Bizarre Bourgeois Hair Styles, 44. One Hundred Items for Destroying the Old and Establishing the New, 45. Revolutionize the Spring Festival, 46. Let Us Celebrate a 'Proletarian Cultural Revolution Holiday' , 47. On The Red Lantern, 48. Unveiling the Dark Side of the Chinese Department's Program in Classical Studies, F. The Economy, 49. On How to Handle Foreign Currency, Foreign Currency Receipts, and Foreign Currency Securities Confiscated by Red Guards, 50. Public Notice on Cracking Down on Speculation and Strengthening Market Controls, 51. Warehouse Inventory Work in Shanghai-A Survey, 52. Situation Report (1968) on Thrift within the Armed Forces, 53. Concerning the Speed of Economic Development during the Ten Years of Domestic Turmoil, G. Mutual Perceptions: Chinese and Western, 54. Salesmen of Reactionary Western Culture, 55. A Great Storm, 56. Is China Almost Like a Dead Society?, Part III. After the Event, H. The Trouble with History: Official Verdicts, 57. Seal the Coffin and Pass the Final Verdict, 58. Concerning Open Propaganda about the Redressing of the Unjust Case of Comrade Liu Shaoqi, 59. The Cultural Revolution---Excerpt from Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, 60. On the Appropriate Handling of Materials Related to Unjust, False, and Mistaken Cases Dating from the Great Cultural Revolution Movement, 61. Civilian's Martyr Status Revoked..., 62. ... and Soldiers' Martyr Status Reaffirmed, 63. Regulations Governing the Publication of Books about the Great Cultural Revolution, I. Ordinary People Remember, 64. The Cultural Revolution Has Been Under Way for Two Thousand Years, 65. Childhood without Toys, 66. Burning Books, 67. Comrade Wu Han, I Apologize!, 68. Go on Red! Stop on Green!, 69. All Because of On Practice, 70. Still Grieving, 71. Walls, 72. Letter to Chen Yun, Deng Xiaoping, and Hu Yaobang, Organizational Charts, Chronology, Biographical Sketches, Further Readings, Index
