1. Age of Extremes
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
2. Bethune, Norman
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
3. The Burning Forest
   Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
5. Canton, December 1927
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1928
   In 1927, as a result of a rapid succession of fatal mistakes, the Chinese proletariat lost the strong positions in Shanghai and Hankou that it had gloriously conquered at the head of the national movement. In April Chiang Kai-shek’s coup, which was prepared in broad daylight and should have been foreseen, robbed the workers of Shanghai. In August the sharp turn to the right by the ‘left’ Guomindang, on which had been based inadmissible hopes, robbed the workers of Hankou. In the meantime, the seizure of Changsha, carried out with the complicity of the Hankow government (in which the Communists participated), decapitated the Hunan peasant movement.
6. China: Whose Revolution?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1987
   The Chinese Revolution was one of the most momentous events of the 20th century. For a quarter of the human race it seemed to open the way to eradicate the roots of poverty and famine, to build a better society. But whose revolution was it? Few socialists today look to China for inspiration. The illusions of “Maoism” have been systematically shattered. Today China is becoming more and more part of the world system it once seemed to want to overthrow.
7. China's Republic
   Resource Type: Book
   An introductory text for students and general readers offering an unbiased look at the rise of Maoist communism and the decline of Chiang Kai Shek's Guomintang.
   
8. Chinese Workers' Resistance
   Against The Current vol. 111
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2004
   Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
9. C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
10. Communism Takes China
    How the Revolution Went Red
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A short history of Chinese history from 1911 to 1949.
11. Connexions Library: China Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
12. The Fifth Modernization
    China's Spirit of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician, posted this on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
13. From Cave Paintings to the Internet
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
14. From the Ruins of Empire
    The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West.
15. The Great Leap Forward in China (1958): Chairman Mao's Catastrophe
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong made a promise that Chinese steel production would soon surpass that of Great Britain and America. It was known as "The Great Leap Forward," and the massive focus on steel had catastrophic consequences as it diverted labour and millions died of starvation.
16. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China (8)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
17. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution In China (9)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
18. The Great Reversal
    The Privatization of China
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    In these essays Hinton argues that Deng XiaoPing and his privatization reforms destroyed the achievements of the Maoist Revolution of 1949.
19. History and Will
    Wakeman, Frederic E.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
20. Kang Sheng
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Senior official in the Communist Party of China, in charge of security and repression of dissidents.
21. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
22. Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
23. The Mandate of Heaven
    Marx and Mao in Modern China
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    China’s transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power is a modern legend. But how did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of the peasants and workers? Why, when apparently united in their beliefs, are Russia and China enemies? And why, if Mao is right, must Marx be wrong? Using publications from the People’s Republic and his own extensive research, Nigel Harris has written a serious critique of the history, aims and actions of the communist Party in China.
24. Mao's China
    Economic and Political Survey
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1957
    
25. A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
26. A Marxist History of the World part 25: Chinese History's Revolving Door
    Door
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner examines China's imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.
27. A Marxist History of the World part 63: The Rape of China
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at the impact of western imperialism's repeated and bloody attempts to control the wealth of China
28. A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
29. A Marxist History of the World part 93: Maoist China
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    After the revolution of 1949, the Chinese Communists resorted to state capitalism to force the country’s industrialisation. The consequences were disastrous.
30. Nanking Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
31. Oracle Bones
    A Journey Between China's Past and Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A first-hand exploration of contemporary China through the accounts of its living citizens as well as through ancient artifacts uncovered in archeological digs -- a psycho-social examination of who the Chinese are today.
    
32. Our Study and Current Situation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
33. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
34. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
35. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
36. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
37. Problems of Stategy in China's Revolutionary War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
38. Red Star Over China
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
39. The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    
40. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
41. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
42. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
43. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
44. Tokyo National Museum
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
45. Tombstone
    The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A look at 'the great famine', a concealed result of the Great Leap Forward in China.
46. The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
    A study of the social catastrophe that convulsed China in 1925-27, when the working-class movement was murderously crushed by the Kuomintang.
47. Urgent Tasks Following the Establishment of Kuomintang-Communist Co-operation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
48. Whither China?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1968
    A document written by militants called Sheng-wu-lien in Hunan province in China during the "Cultural Revolution." The Shengwulian activists were crushed by the bureaucracy.
49. Why is it That Red Political Power Can Exist in China?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    

Experts on Chinese History in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Civilisations Museum
2. The British Museum
3. The Hermitage
4. Tokyo National Museum