Internet resources for China under Mao 1949 - 1976

Overview

• BBC News Special Reports. China's Communist Revolution. A Glossary (BBC)
   
• History of The Cultural Revolution (Thinkquest)
   
• BBC - History – Historic Figures - Mao Zedong
   
• Mao Zedong msn Encarta
   
• Morning Sun. A Film and Website about the Cultural Revolution
   

• The Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution"
   

Recommended Films

• Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution (youtube)
   
• The Great Leap Forward
   
• BBC: Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed (Part One)
   
• BBC: Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed (Part Two)
   
• BBC: Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed (Part Three)
   
• BBC: Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed (Part Four)
   
• Ping-Pong Diplomacy Broadcast Date: Dec. 28, 1971 (CBC Digital Archives)
   
• June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre BBC News (Youtube.com)
   
• Massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (CBC June 4, 1989)
   
• Tinanmen Square - Holding Up a Tank (Youtube.com)

Propaganda

• Songs of China's Cultural Revolution
  (All Songs are in MP3 format)
   
• Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages 
  Marvellous on-line exhibition of Chinese Propaganda posters
   
• The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
  From a Maoist's viewpoint. Great Footage, interesting propaganda posters (Youtube.com)
   
• Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (The Huntington Archive, Ohio State University, USA)