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The Secret Listener : An Ingenue in Mao's Court
by Yuan-Tsung Chen
A first-hand account of what life was like in the period before the revolution and in Mao's reign, China was a vast human drama, as real people confronted, not political abstractions, but concrete, real challenges, often involving life and death, and she was a witness to the choices, the ways people behaved, in that situation. The Secret Listener gives a unique perspective on the era. Yuan-tsung Chen, who is now 90, and lived through most of it offers a vantage point that provides us with a new, wider perspective on the Maoist regime, one of the most radical political experiments in modern history and a force that genuinely changed the world.
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We served the people : my mother's stories
by Emei Burell
A collection of moving stories passed from mother to daughter recounting life during China's Cultural Revolution. In China, an entire generation's most formative years took place in remote rural areas when city-kids were sent to the countryside to become rusticated youth and partake in Mao's mandated Great Leap Forward. Debut cartoonist Emei Burell breathes new life into the stories her mother shared with her of growing up during mid-1960s Communist China. In an inspiring tale, her mother recounts how she ended up as one of the few truck-driving women during the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside movement, which sought to increase agricultural outreach and spur social and ideological change amongst youth. Burell's stunning illustrations honor her mother's courage, strength, and determination during a decade of tremendous political upheaval, where millions of lives were lost, and introduces us to a young Burell in a new era of self-discovery.
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Wild swans : three daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Traces three generations of a family in twentieth-century China, during which a warlord's concubine, a powerful Communist Party member, and a Cultural Revolution survivor witness Mao's impact on their nation and their livelihoods.
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The tragedy of liberation : a history of the Chinese revolution, 1945-1957
by Frank Dikötter
Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, this landmark documentary on the violent early years of the People's Republic of China draws on hundreds of previously classified documents, eyewitness accounts of those who survived and other sources.
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Heaven cracks, earth shakes : the Tangshan Earthquake and the death of Mao's China
by James Palmer
Documents the tumultuous years in China surrounding the death of Chairman Mao, providing coverage of contributing factors ranging from the death of popular premier Zhou Enlai and growing anger towards the Gang of Four to the 1976 earthquake in Tangshan and resistance to the Cultural Revolution. By the award-winning author of The Bloody White Baron.
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Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people
by Helen Zia
A stirring account of the emergence of the "Asian-American" consciousness in America explores the often tragic history that led to disparate groups of Asians seeing themselves as a single, cohesive ethnic community with political and social power.
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