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  1. After the Cataclysm
    Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  2. Backlash as Google shores up great firewall of China
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Censoring the Internet.
  3. Beware of the hidden agendas of media censorship in China
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    This article argues that China's censorship of the Tibetan protests during the Olympic games was the state's attempt to maintain a positive image of the West within China. Zhao argues that the West has misinterpreted Chinese censorship policies and emphasizes how censorship policies seek to contain "explosive Chinese nationalism and domestic social conflicts" rather than oppress the people.
  4. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  5. Broken Images
    Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
  6. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
  7. The Chairman's New Clothes
    Mao and the Cultural Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
  8. China and Socialism
    Market Reforms and Class Struggle

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that market reforms in China are leading toward a capitalist and foreign-dominated development path, with enormous social and political costs, both domestically and internationally.
  9. China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    The Chinese ruling elite is riding the whirlwind precisely because its own necessary reforms are quite visibly setting in motion social processes that could completely overwhelm it, namely a working-class and peasant insurrection which would necessarily assume a truly socialist content.
  10. China Mao or never
    New Internationalist September 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the communist government China and the people's dream of free speech.
  11. China Shakes the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1949   Published: 1973
    Jack Belden's classic account of the Chinese civil war.
  12. 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.
  13. Chinese Shadows
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1978
  14. The CIA
    A Forgotten History

    Resource Type: Book
    Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
  15. Connexions Library: China Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
  16. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  17. The End of the Revolution
    China and the Limits of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Wang Hui is a leading member of China's "New Left". He challenges both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm. He calls for alternatives to both China's capitalist transformation and its repressive and authoritarian past.
  18. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
  19. Fanshen
    Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

    Resource Type: Book
    William Hinton’s work is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complementary and caustic relationship since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power.
  20. The Great Reversal
    The Privitization of China

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  21. The Great Reversal
    The Privatization of China 1978-1989

    Resource Type: Book
    The Great Reversal is the first critical study of the widely heralded reforms currently transforming China’s economy. From his long experience of Chinese agriculture, Hinton first examines the course of agricultural reform over the past decade, then looks at its consequences in different areas of the countryside and considers its implications for the country as a whole. He raises troubling questions about China’s capitalist future — the growing landlessness, increasing inequality, and above all, the destruction of the nation’s natural resources and the collectively built infrastructure that was the great achievement of the revolution.
  22. A Green History of the World 
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  23. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
  24. Human Rights: in a time of terror
    New Internationalist January/February 2008

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
  25. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  26. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  27. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  28. Mao as a Dialectician
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
  29. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  30. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  31. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  32. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
  33. Oracle Bones
    A Journey Between China's Past and Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  34. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  35. Race and Racism in China
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discrimination against the minority ethnic groups in contemporary China remains significant.
  36. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  37. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
  38. The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    With the decline of the economic power of the United States, its current hegemonic role will deteriorate and the growth of China will so erode the foundations of capital accumulation — by pushing wages and environmental costs up, for example — that the entire capitalist system will be shaken to its core.
  39. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   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."
  40. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  41. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  42. The Socialist Register 1988
    Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
  43. The Struggle for Tibet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya debate Tibet's history under Communist rule. While both are critical of China's crackdown on resistance movements, Wang, a Chinese intellectual draws a picture of a struggle that is bureaucratic, religious and is opposed to Communism. Shakya, a Tibetan national historian, on the other hand, describes a struggle that is nationalistic and anti-colonial.
  44. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the PRC beginning on 14 April. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
  45. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  46. Trade Justice! Yes, but what is it?
    New Internationalist April 2006

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    Discusses Trade justices and the effects its has had on different parts of the world. Voices the opinions of people from the around the world on the topic of trade justice.
  47. Transnational Capital and the State in China: Partners in Exploitation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    The destruction of job and income security, the sacking of tens of millions of workers, and the withdrawal of government subsidies and protection for local industry serves the interests of a ruling elite that is in partnership with transnational capital.
  48. Voices from Tiananmen Square
    Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  49. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
  50. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on China in the Sources Directory

  1. The Hermitage
  2. Linden-Museum Stuttgart
  3. United Nations
  4. World Digital Library



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