Gang Of One Online Resources

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Excellent Overall Chinese Cultural Resources:

• http://www.morningsun.org/index.html Morning Sun, this link features a film and website packed with photographs, images of artifacts and other fascinating memorabilia from the Cultural Revolution, by Carma Hinton, Geremie Barmé and Richard Gordon.
• The Chinese Holocaust Memorial http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/
• http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/prc.html -- an exceptional collection of resources – highly recommended!
• Chinaovoc.com http://www.chinavoc.com/history/peoplerepublic.htm This site contains interesting links to online articles about Chinese cultural history.

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Terms, Concepts and Research Resources:

· http://buffy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/chihp.html -- Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library (strongly recommended)

· Chinese Glossary

· List of famous Chinese People from: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20famous%20Chinese%20people

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Resources and Tips for Teaching Chinese History and Cultural Studies:

• The Chinese Cultural Revolution WebQuest http://www.eteachers.com.au/Samples/int/Sec/China/Studyroom/6cultrev/webcultural.htm -- a resource for teachers.
• “Themes in Chinese History: What to Teach and How to Teach Them” http://www.doe.state.de.us/AsiaProject/Meetings/Teaching_Ch_Hist.pdf

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Who Was Mao?
These links wil provide you with more information about Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)

• A biography of Mao http://www.asiasource.org/society/mao2.cfm
• A profile from Time Magazine on Mao http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mao.html
• http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/great/mao.htm -- “Great Warrior Leaders/Thinkers: Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)”
• A collection and explanation of Mao’s slogans and sayings http://zhongwen.com/mao.htm (and in English at http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html ) by Lin Piao (December 16, 1966)
• http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Mao-Zedong.html -- A hisorical explanation of Mao’s life
• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mao.htm -- Mao Zedong’s Life (1893-1976)
• More quotations from Mao and information about his life http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/index.htm
• Quotations http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm
• Additional Mao Zedong Links posted at http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientChina.html
  THE PARTY-Red Line: Mao Zedong' biography and his history
  Mao Zedong: The Great Helmsman
  Long March was the making of Mao
  Sayings of Chairman Mao
  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 6
  Mao Zedong: China Will Take a Giant Stride Forward, 1964
  Mao Zedong: The Chinese people have stood up!, 1949
  Conversations betwen the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Zedong, 1949
  Conversation between the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Zedong 1950
  

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Mao’s Works (in full text detail)

· http://www.morningsun.org/living/redbook/lrb.html
This amazing website provides full text of (and a preface by Lin Biao) the Little Red Book and the pamphlet, “Ask Chairman Mao for the Answers to your Problem” which tells “readers how to apply Mao Zedong Thought to problems encountered in pursuit of the revolutionary path.”

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Theoretical Resources:

Communism

• A credible overview of communist theory and history -- http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/faqframe.htm

Democracy (As it relates to China)

• http://www.tsquare.tv/themes/01.html

Daoism (Taoism)

• http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/daoist.html -- A Daoist Philosophy, by Peter Myers and Taoism and Modernity, by Henry C K Liu
• http://www.edepot.com/taotext.html -- An Introduction to Daoist Scriptures
• http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10037.html -- An explanation of Taoism
  
  Five Elements or Agents

• http://www.tsquare.tv/themes/01.html -- This site examines the Five Elements often referred to in Fan Shen’s Gang of One

Ying Yang
· http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Yin%20Yang -- a quick explanation of “Ying and Yang.”

Confucius

• http://www.wckfc.com/article/ANALECT/analect.htm -- Confucian Analects.
• http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/fall99/graves/ -- “Chinese Communism and Confucius,” by Adam Graves

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Selected Books and Authors Referred to in Gang of One

• Jack London’s Martin Eden
• A site dedicated to Jack London’s work http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Essays/philosophy.html
• A biography of London http://london.centenary.edu/biblio.html
• Another biography of London http://www.online-literature.com/london/

• Anton Chekhov’s works
• Two sites that are dedicated to Chekhov’s works -- http://people.brandeis.edu/%7Eteuber/chekhovbio.html
  http://www.eldritchpress.org/ac/yr/Anton_Chekhov.html
  
  
• The Dream of the Red Chamber
• Information about this book -- http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Dream+of+the+Red+Chamber
  
  
• The Journey West
• http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Journey%20to%20the%20West
• http://academic.hws.edu/chinese/huang/mdln210/asn210-20.ppt -- PowerPoint Presentation on this book.
  
  
• Oscar Wilde’s works
• Oscar Wilde’s “Official Website” http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/
• Oscar Wilde’s biography and list of works -- http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/
  
  
• Stendhal’s The Red and the Black
• An overview of this book http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/redblack/section1.html

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Forbidden City

Selected Images from the Cultural Revolution:

• http://www.morningsun.org/index.html Morning Sun, this link features a film and website packed with photographs, images of artifacts and other fascinating memorabilia from the Cultural Revolution, by Carma Hinton, Geremie Barmé and Richard Gordon.
• A full variety of images can be found at http://www.morningsun.org/images/index.html including:
• Photographs
• Art and Artifacts
• Mao Badges
• Smash the Old World!
• Video excerpts of particular interest include:
• The Red Lantern
• The Red Detachment of Women
• Heroic Little Sisters on the Grassland
• Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/
• Of special interest:
• Images of Women: http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/iron.html
• The Mao Cult: http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/cult.html
• www.iisg.nl/ ~landsberger/crc.html
• http://www.cnd.org/CR/ -- The Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution
• http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/ordinarylife/dailylifeshow_ricebowls.htm Images from the Burke Museum from this era.
• Graphic Galleries listed at and linked from: http://www.rwor.org/s/china.htm
• The Peoples War in China 1927-49
• The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-1976
• Posters from Revolutionary China
• Mao Tsetung Picture Album (drawings and photos)
• The Tiananmen Events 1989

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The Red Guards

• A description of the Red Guards -- http://www.rwor.org/a/v20/960-69/966/redgrd.htm
• Songs (and sheet music) from the Red Guards http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/working_paper/noframe_10b_song.htm

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Maps of China:

• http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/chinamap.gif

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Information about The People's Republic Of China:

• http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/prc.html#prc
• http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/prc.html -- an exceptional collection of resources – highly recommended!

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Chinese Culture Revolution Websites and Resources:

• An excellent, comprehensive site that probes “living in the cultural revolution” among other topics: http://www.morningsun.org/living/index.html
• Of special interest include the “pop culture” of this era:
• Listen to the Radio
• Watch TV
• Watch a Movie
• Take an English Lesson
• Read from the newspapers at http://www.morningsun.org/living/media.html
• Links to the “daily life” include:
• Red Guards
• A Barefoot Doctor
• Schools
• Communes and Factories
• Music
• Other links include commentary on the heroes and enemies of the time:
• Heroes: http://www.morningsun.org/living/heroes/heroes.html#
• Acchttp://www.morningsun.org/living/enemies/enemies.html

• http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientChina.html -- a full set of links covering maps, timelines, historical events, etc.
• The Chinese Holocaust Memorial http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/ and http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/ywang/history/1966teacher.htm An article about student attacks and a memorial for victims of this era.
• http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/ordinarylife/lookingback.htm an overview of the Cultural Revolution from the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture at the University of Washington

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Cultural Revolution Online Articles:

• http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/prc3.html#cultural -- this article explores The People’s Republic of China: III The Cultural Revolution Decade, 1966-76
• http://www.chineseupress.com/promotion/China%20Review/5-Li.pdf Xing Li’s “The Chinese Cultural Revolution Revisited” from the China Review
• http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1703.html -- “The perpetual victims and the momentum of victimization Persecution of the ‘Bad Classes’ during the Cultural Revolution” by Gong Xiaoxia, Ph.D.
• http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/c11sa10.html -- “Cultural Revolution: The Preface of The Cultural Revolution (1964 to 1966)”
• http://www.marxists.de/china/hore/03-cultrev.htm -- “China: Whose Revolution?”
• http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/charlie/china1966.htm -- Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China 1966-1969
• http://www.islandnet.com/%7Ecitizenx/cultrev2.html -- “The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” by Brian R. Train
• http://library.thinkquest.org/26469/cultural-revolution/ -- “The Cultural Revolution” a strong overview of the Cultural Revolution.
• http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Cultural-Revolution.html -- Cultural Revolution: Meaning (information, definition, explanation)
• http://www.uglychinese.org/tragedy.htm -- A more opinion based essay on the Cultural Revolution.

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Bibliographies on Chinese History and Culture:

• http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/references.html
• http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/chinbib.html
• This expansive collection of credible print sources is highly suggested by several authors of Chinese Cultural Studies.
• http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/store.html#yjq

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Chinese Cultural Studies Sites:

• Culture Sites Linked originally from http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientChina.html
  Understanding what Culture Means
  Culture Worksheet
  What is Culture?
  Great Chinese Culture Quiz
  One Hundred Most popular Chinese Names
  A brief history of Qigong
  Chinese Crafts @ The Franklin Institute
  China: Ancient Arts & Sciences @ The Franklin Institute
  Ancient Chinese Furniture
  
• Mythology & Fables Linked originally from: http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientChina.html
  Eight Immortals of Chinese Mythology
  Dragons in Ancient China: architecture, paintings, and on royal robes
  Chinese Culture Online Library: Ancient Chinese Fables
  Ancient Chinese Mythology: History, Features and more

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Chinese History:

• Chinaovoc.com http://www.chinavoc.com/history/peoplerepublic.htm This site contains interesting links to online articles about Chinese cultural history. Of particular interest are articles on:

• Transition to Socialism, 1953-57
• Great Leap Forward, 1958-60
• Readjustment and Recovery, 1961-65
• Cultural Revolution Decade, 1966-76
• Militant Phase, 1966-68
• Ninth National Party Congress to the Demise of Lin Biao, 1969-71
• End of the Era of Mao Zedong, 1972-76
• Post-Mao Period, 1976-78
• China and the Four Modernizations, 1979-82
• Reforms, 1980-88
• Mao Zedong: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
• Deng Xiaoping: Seeking Truth from Facts
• Jiang Zemin: Representative of the ultimate interests of the broad masses in China

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Historical Timelines

Timeline Constructed to Correlate to Gang of One events and references is available at: http://www.roch.edu/org/ctl/Timeline.htm

Other Timelines:

• http://humanities.uchicago.edu/fa culty/ywang/history/events.htm A timeline created by Professor Wang from the University
• of Chicago.
• http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html
  This timeline focuses upon a timeline that is further linked with a list of the emperors (in Chinese) for each of the respective dynasty
• http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/china.html This children’s site includes a fun timeline that would be of interest to anyone wanting a general overview of China’s cultural and historical timeline.
• **http://www.globecartoon.com/china/timeline.html This site graphs a Chinese timeline through historical editorial cartoons.
• http://www.turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/china/chna_tml.html This site focuses upon information about the Cold War.
• This site is particularly interesting as a cold war timeline yet looks as related cultural trends from fashion and movie clips to history and poltiticalideology http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/timeline/
• http://www.chinavoc.com/history/timeline.htm A timeline of China.
• Time’s “80 Days that Changed the World” http://www.time.com/time/80days/
• http://www.morningsun.org/stages/index.html
• A site depicting “Modern China” and its timeline http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/english/gb/gbsite/china/modernchina/modernchina.html
• Other timeline sites listed at http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientChina.html :
  A chronological history of China beginning in 2205 BCE
  Ancient China: Time Line - in table form
  Traditional Dynastic Chronology: based on dynasties, governmental forms & economic life
  Chronology of Dynasties and Events Outside of China at the same time
  Chronological Table of Chinese History: Primitive, Slavery & Feudal
  

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Cold War Culture:

• This site probes cultural trends and issues during the Cold War http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/culture/

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Interesting Online Chinese Teaching Units:

• http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/K12east.html#CHINAThis site is of interest to Education Majors especially. It also includes links to Chinese history, great leaders, folk tales, geographic regions, etc. with a k-12 audience in mind
• http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/china.html This children’s site includes a fun timeline that would be of interest to anyone wanting a general overview of China’s cultural and historical timeline.
• Chinese Proverbs could be used as impromptu speech topics, one-minute writing activities or even just a fun, general probe into Chinese Cultural values http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/proverb.html. These proverbs could be used to explore ethical decision making (e.g., are there contradictory proverbs?)
• Cold War Teaching Units from Turner Learning http://www.turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cw_crcns.html
  This site is particularly interesting as a cold war timeline http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/timeline/
• A unit on Chinese Mythology: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/myth/edtech.html
• Chinese Stories http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/resource-china.htm#a

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Just for Fun:

• See and hear your name in Chinese! http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
• A quiz to test your knowledge! http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/CulturTriv.htm

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