Recommended Read

Lower Sixth students should certainly buy and read the book 'Modern China: A Very Short Introduction' by Rana Mitter. More ambitious students could try Mitter's 'A Bitter Revolution' next - both are linked to their respective Amazon pages below.

Mitter, of course, is giving two of the Mao lectures in London later in the month.

China in Revolution - Parts 1 and 2

Her are the two parts of the 'China in Revolution' video that both groups have seen in lessons, taken from Youtube. Part 2 is the first one below, dealing with the period from Sun's death to Chiang's triumph as leader of the GMD and ruler of China. The first part, below it, looks at the 1911 revolution. Some of the first hand recollections in the second video are particularly interesting in conveying the ideological tensions between the GMD and the CCP, and in showing ordinary people's attitudes towards the joint revolutionary movement.

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