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Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949-1979 (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1994)
David Apter & Tony Saich, Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994)
Geremie Barmé, Shades of Mao – The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996)
Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts – China's Secret Famine (New York: Henry Holt, 1998)
Thomas P. Bernstein, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages – The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China (New Haven, etc.: Yale University Press, 1977)
Susan E. Brownell, Training the Body for China – Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (Chicago, etc.: The University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Woei Lien Chong (ed.), China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives (Lanham MD, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002)
Flemming Christiansen & Shirin Rai, Chinese Politics and Society – An Introduction (London etc.: Prentice Hall, 1996)
Sherman Cochran, Big Business in China – Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930 (Cambridge MASS, etc.: Harvard University Press, 1980)
Sherman Cochran (ed.), Inventing Nanjing Road – Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series No. 103, 1999)
Frank Columbus (ed.), Asian Economic and Political Issues, vol. 10 (New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2004)
Dachang Cong, When Heroes Pass Away – The Invention of a Chinese Communist Pantheon (Lanham MD etc.: University Press of America, 1997)
Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tompkins, Chinese Posters – Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2007)
Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elisabeth J. Perry (eds), Urban spaces in contemporary China – The potential for autonomy and community in post-Mao China (Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Wolfram Eberhard, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols – Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought (London/New York N.Y.: Routledge, 1988)
Victoria & James Edison, Cultural Revolution Posters & Memorabilia (Schiffer Pub. Ltd., 2006)
Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, Andrew Walder (eds), The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006)
Harriet Evans and Stephanie Donald (eds), Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China – Posters of the Cultural Revolution (Lanham, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999)
Judith Farquhar, Appetites – Food and sex in post-socialist China (Durham, etc.: Duke University Press, 2002)
John Fitzgerald, Awakening China – Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998)
James A. Flath, The Cult of Happiness – Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004)
Vanessa L. Fong, Only Hope – Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004)
Maria Galikowski, Arts and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998)
Gao Yuan, Born Red – A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution ((Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987)
Bruce Gilley, Tiger on the Brink – Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1998)
Guo Jian, Yongyi Song & Yuan Zhou, Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Lanham, etc.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006)
Peter Hays Gries & Stanley Rosen (eds), State and Society in 21st-century China – Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation (New York, etc.: RoutledgeCurzon 2004)
Jessica Harrison-Hall, Vietnam Behind the Lines – Images from the War 1965-1975 (London: The British Museum Press, 2002)
Marien van der Heijden, Stefan R. Landsberger, Kuiyi Shen, Chinese Posters. The IISH-Landsberger Collections (München: Prestel, 2009)
David L. Holm, Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter, Personal Voices – Chinese Women in the 1980s (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988)
Hung Chang-tai, War and Popular Culture – Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1994)
Yarong Jiang & David Ashley (eds.)
Mao's Children in the New China – Voices from the Red Guard Generation (London, etc.: Routledge, 2000)
Ellen Johnston Laing, Selling Happiness – Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
Stefan Landsberger, Chinese Propaganda Posters – From Revolution to Modernization (Amsterdam, Singapore/Armonk: The Pepin Press/M.E. Sharpe, 1995, 1998/1996)
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Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.), Chinese Media, Global Contexts (London, etc.: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)
John Wilson Lewis & Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower – The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994)
Kwok-sing Li (editor) & Mary Lok (translator), A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1995)
Li Zhensheng, Red-Color News Soldier – A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey through the Cultural Revolution (London, etc.: Phaidon Press, 2003)
Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao – The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician (London, etc.: Random House, 1996)
Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen & Paul G. Pickowicz (eds), Popular China – Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society (Lanham, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
Lu Xing, Rethoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution – The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture and Communication (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004)
Daniel C. Lynch, After the Propaganda State – Media, Politics and "Thought Work" in Reformed China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999)
Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume I: Contradictions Among the People, 1956-1957 (Columbia University Press, 1987)
Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume II: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (Columbia University Press, 1987)
Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume III: The Coming of the Cataclysm (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Anchee Min et al., Chinese Propaganda Posters: From the Collection of Michael Wolf (Taschen, 2003)
Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution – China's Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Susan Naquin & Chün-fang Yü (eds), Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1992)
Andrew J. Nathan & Robert S. Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress – China's Search for Security (New York etc.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997)
Ng Chun Bong et al., Chinese Woman and Modernity: Calendar Posters of the 1910s-1930s (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing [H.K.] Co, 1996)
Lucian W. Pye, The Mandarin and the Cadre: China's Political Cultures (Ann Arbor MICH: Center for Chinese Studies/University of Michigan, 1988)
Claire Roberts (ed.), Evolution & Revolution – Chinese Dress 1700s-1990s (Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2002)
Danny Schechter, Falun Gong's Challenge to China – Spiritual Practice or "Evil Cult"? (New York: Akashic Books, 2001)
Michael Schoenhals (ed.), China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 - Not A Dinner Party (Armonk NY: M.E Sharpe, 1996)
Melissa Schrift, Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge – The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult (New Brunswick, etc.: Rutgers University Press, 2001)
Sterling Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty (New York, etc: Harper & Row, 1985)
Mark Selden, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1971)
Mark Selden & Elisabeth J. Perry (eds), Chinese Society – Change, Conflict and Resistance (London, etc.: Routledge, 2000)
Peter J. Seybolt, Throwing the Emperor from His Horse – Portrait of a Village Leader in China, 1923-1995 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996)
David L. Shambaugh, The making of a premier: Zhao Ziyang's provincial career (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984)
Jerome Silbergeld with Gong Jisui, Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng (Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, 1993)
Edgar Snow, Red Star over China (Grove Press, 1973)
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists – A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)
Frederick C. Teiwes, Politics and Purges in China – Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965 (Second Edition) (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Frederick Teiwes and Warren Sun, The Tragedy of Lin Biao – Riding the Tiger During the Cultural Revolution 1966-1971 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996)
Frederick Teiwes and Warren Sun, China's Road to Disaster – Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959 (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
Ross Terrill, Madame Mao – The White-Boned Demon (Toronto, etc.: Bantam Books, 1984)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry (eds), Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning from 1989 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
James L. Watson & Evelyn S. Rawski (eds), Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1988)
Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen (eds), China beyond the Headlines (Lanham, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000)
Tyrene White, China's Longest Campaign – Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005 (Ithaca, etc.: Cornell University Press, 2006)
C.A.S. Williams, Outlines of Chinese Symbolism & Art Motives (New York N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976)
Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing – Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Yan Jiaqi & Gao Gao (translated & edited by D.W.Y. Kwok), Turbulent Decade – A History of the Cultural Revolution (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996)
Zhao Yuezhi, Media, Market and Democracy in China – Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (Urbana etc.: University of Illinois Press, 1998)
