Modern China

 

LINKS:

PBS Frontline: China in the Red  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/red/

Basic facts about modern China http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinfact.html

The Chinese Revolution of 1949  http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/alevel/china_revolution1.htm

The Roots of Communist China http://www.cyberessays.com/History/91.htm

CNN Special: Visions of China  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/flash.html

CNN Special: Tiananmen Square  http://asia.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/tiananmen/

Chairman Mao on Communist China http://www.marx2mao.org//Mao/CRCCP39.html

The famous images of a student standing before tanks  http://asia.cnn.com/video/world/2001/06/01/tank.low.ram?embed=true

Beijing Massacre 6-4-89   http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7288/liusi.htm

Washington Post article on Deng Xiaoping   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/asia/feb/20/deng.htm

People's Republic of China's view of human rights   http://www2.kenyon.edu/depts/religion/fac/Adler/reln471/Images471/rights.JPG

Modern Marriage in China  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/modmar.html

Women in China: Past & Present  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinwomn.html

Linda Shaffer, "China, Technology & Change"   http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/shaffer.html

Press Reports on Chinese Power Today  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinprss.html

The Mao Zedong Library  http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Mao/Index.html (For his biography, visit: http://www.geocities.com/franith/)

Discovering China: The Middle Kingdom and the Modern Age  http://library.thinkquest.org/26469/history/

 

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