This exhibit presents topics and incidents as studied by contemporary Cultural Revolution researchers. Among the research topics presented are the following: Student violence towards teachers and fellow students; the emergence and decline of JIAN Jiang at Qinghua and GONG Zhongxi in Shanghai; and the shattering of the partnerships between MAO Zedong and LIU Shaoqi and their subsequent personal development. The museum organizers hope to receive and display more research papers from both the PRC and overseas in this section of the exhibition.

General:

• What is Cultural Revolution? .......................... XIE You
• Cultural Revolution Revisited ..............................Yang Xiaokai
• Forum: Also on the "Cultural Revolution" .................. ZHAO Huaihai
• The Rarely-Known Initial Period of Cultural Revolution ......LI Xuefeng
• Analysis: Journey of Rebirth - From Doom to Great Expectations
• Memorabile of Cultural Revolution ...................... <<Asia Weekly>>
• Several Points of Rethinking after Thirty Years ............ Zhu Jiaming
• Transcend the Collective Loss of Memory ..................... Du Weiming
• How the Cultural Revolution Became a Forbidden Topic? ........Qi Quan-de
• The Shame of a Generation ...................YUE Jianyi and ZHANG Dening
• The Two Cultural Revolutions ........................... ZHENG Yi
• "Two Cultural Revolutions", or Just One? ............. XI Dong
• Ten-Year Cultural Revolution, or A Two-Year One? ........ XI Dong
• Cultural Revolution -- A Mighty Revolution .............. FANG Su

• The Birth of the First Red Guard Group (part 1 of 2).....ZHONG Wei-Guang
• Long Live the Revolting Spirit of the Proletarian Revolution......Qinghua University Middle School Red Guards
• A Letter to Qinghua University Middle School Red Guards---Mao Zedong
• An Appeal to the Population ..... Red Guards of Beijing 14th High School
• Smash the Confucianist Shop --Declaration of War Against Confucianism ........ Jinggangshan Regiment of Beijing Normal University
• Declaration.......Third Command of the Capital's Red Guards
• The Birth of the First Red Guard Group (part 2 of 2) ....ZHONG Wei-Guang
• Rise and Fall of the Qinghua University "Jingangshan Regiment" Red Guards..Tang Shao-jie
• Red Guards Entering Middle Age ............................ YIN Hongbiao
• Red Guards Shed Blood in Red Square .......................YANG Zhanxian
• My Recollection as an Old Red Guard ........................Zhao Huaihai
• The Red Guard Leaders -- Past and Present ...............<<Asia Weekly>>
• A Never-Published Report on Red Guards ........................ JIN Feng
• I Do Not Repent, Says a Former Red Guard Commander ..........AN Wenjiang

• Student Attacks Againt Teachers: The Revolution of 1966........WANG You-qin, Standford University,  Paper presented at the conference, "The Cultural Revolution in Retrospect, " Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, July 4-6, 1996 
• Persecution Against Schoolmates -- Facts and Analysis ......WANG You-qin
• Cultural Revolution in My Eyes: Some Thoughts after Reading "The Revolution of  Beating Teachers"..... DING Bai
• Female Cruelty .............................................WANG You-qin
• Cruelty with No Purpose ....................................JING Kaixuan 
• An Event of Beating Up People during the "Red August" ......Zhao Huaihai 
• The Deaths in August ....................................WANG You-qing 

• Heterodox Thoughts During the Cultural Revolution...........Song Yongyi and Sun Dajin 
• Afterword to <<Dissident Thoughts and Cultural Revolution>..SONG Yong-yi
• From "Revolution in Historical Study" to Digging Ancestors' Graves .. DING Shu
• From Criticizing Capitalist Roaders to Exposing Traitors .......DING Shu
• Underground Literature during the Cultural Revolution ........ YANG Jian
• Cultural Heritage of the "Central Cultural Revolution Group" ....WANG Yi
• Did Chinese Ever Worship Mao? ..............................LIU Songyuan
• The "Third Layer of Thoughts" .............................. Yang Ruiyun
• The Long Pilgrimage --An Unprecedented Mass Political Cross-Country Tour .... YAN Fan
• Zhang Chengzhi's So Called "Resisting Surrender" .........Zhong Weiguang
• About the Case of Xia Duke ....................................... Yi Ye

• A Nation is Without a Future if It Doesn't Learn the Lesson of the Past ... ZHANG Weiguo
• Refuse to Forget .........................................Zhang Zhizhong
• The Future of China Impressed with Cultural Revolution ...<<Asia Weekly>>
• Watch Out for the Comeback of Cultural Revolution in the Form of Nationalism ..........Yu Yingshi
• Forget the Past and Tragedy Will Repeat .......................YU Luowen

• Where Will the Cultural Revolution Study Flourish? ........ SUN Yi-jiang
• Society for Research of Cultural Revolution Established in Chicago
• A Symposium on the History of Cultural Revolution
• A Cultural Revolution Research Symposium at Harvard ........Zhang Weiguo

• CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party. Edited by Michael Schoehals. Armonk, New York and London: M. E. Sharpe. 1996

This is a reader consisting of 72 primary documents drawn primarily from public and classified Chinese sources. Among the "hard" political documents included are the Sixteen Points of August 1966, Lin Biao on "Why a Cultural Revolution?" - the 1967 directives  to the PLA making it a direct participant in events, and anxious decrees from the centre banning the formation of potentially powerful, nation-wide mass organizations. Two items that catch the spirit of the time are the transcript of Wang Guangmei's trial, where Red Guards forced her to don a dress she had worn when received by Sukarno, and a reminiscence of the meeting in which Zhou Enlai suavely convinced Red Guards who wanted to change the traffic lights to go on red and stop on green that it would be best to continue stopping on red "to respect the revolutionary order. David P Barrett reviewed this book in Pacific Affairs, Vancouver; Summer 1998; Vol. 71, Iss. 2; pg. 242.

• The Cultural Revolution: a bibliography, 1966-1996.  Compiled by Sung, Yung-I and Sun, Dajin. Edited by Eugene W. Wu. Harvard-Yenching Library bibliographical series; 6.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, c1998.

In Michael Schoenhals' review of this book, he writes, "What Song and Sun have done, with the generous support of the Harvard-Yenching Library and the grand old man of North American Asia librarians, Eugene Wu, is to aid those who may thus be called inescapist in their understanding of the place the Cultural Revolution occupies in PRC history by giving them an extensive, near-exhaustive, expert list of the relevant literature."  Schoenhals also points out that this is a bibliography of secondary sources only. Its coverage is very impressive: books, articles, unpublished theses, and working papers in Chinese, English, Japanese and other languages on everything from elite and provincial level politics to grass roots social and economic conditions, from science and the arts to foreign relations, from Red Guards to Mao Zedong, rebels to "royalists". (Michael Schoenhals, The Cultrual Revolution: A Bibliography, 1966-1996 
 
• MacFarquhar, Roderick.  The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966.  The origins of the Cultural Revolution; 3.  Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.  Oxford; New York: Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Studies of the East Asian Institute by Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press, 1997.


Lucian W. Pye has this praise for the book,"Sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar took up the immense challenge of trying to explain how the Cultural Revolution happened. The result is an awe-inspiring work of historical scholarship, a trilogy entitled The Origins of the Cultural Revolution."  These three volumes in the trilogy are: Contradictions among the People, 1956-1957, published in 1974; The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960, published in 1983; and the Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 published in 1977. This third volume achieves a standard of scholarship that would have impressed, indeed made envious, Leopold von Ranke, the demanding German historian who insisted that in serious historical writings, all statements of fact must have footnote references to archival sources. MacFarquhar has more than 2,000 footnotes, which refer to more than 900 different sources. Clearly he left no stone unturned to get at all the facts." (Lucian W. Pye. "Bolts from Olympus: An account of the Cultural Revolution sets new standards for Sinology. Harvard Magazine, March-April, 1998 p26-p32.)
A Chinese translation of this work is also available. 

• Feng, Jicai. Voices from the whirlwind : an oral history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Feng Jicai ; with a foreword by Robert Coles. New York, N.Y. : Pantheon Books ; Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, c1991.


Originally published in different form as One Hundred People's Ten Years by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China in 1990. This is a collection of 14 first-person accounts selected and translated from the original book. 

• Seeds of fire: Chinese voices of conscience, edited by Geremie Barme and John Minford. New York: Hill and Wang, 1988.


This book presents about ninety selections under fourteen headings, from the writings of poets, novelists, satirists, film makers, and political prisoners, even including a section on Tibet. Included also are some of the orthodox pronouncements against dissent, well-organized bibliography in English and Chinese, and a list of principal writers and their whereabouts as of 1987. The subtitle, Chinese Voices of Conscience, suggests the eloquence of these writers and the appalling evidence of their frequent frustrationa and handicaps to self-expression. (John K. Fairbank, Keeping Up With New China. The New York Review of Books, Mar. 16, 1989.)
 

• The Wounded : new stories of the Cultural Revolution, 77-78 / authors, Lu Xinhua ... [et al.] ; translators, Geremie Barme & Bennett Lee. Hongkong : Joint Pub. Co., 1979.