China

Cultural Revolution

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Nanjing Atrocities

Cultural Revolution

1966 - 1976

Websites

Wilson Center Digital Archive: China's Cultural Revolution

The Wilson Center provides profiles of the people involved in China's Cultural Revolution and primary sources from this time.

Cultural Revolution | Definition, Facts, & FailureCultural Revolution, in full Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Chinese (Pinyin) Wuchanjieji Wenhua Dageming or (Wade-Giles romanization) Wu-ch’an Chieh-chi Wen-hua Ta Ke-ming, upheaval launched by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong during his last decade in power (1966–76) to renew the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Fearing that China would develop along the lines of the Soviet model and concerned about his own place in history, Mao threw China’s cities into turmoil in a monumental effort to reverse the historic processes underway. During the early 1960s, tensions with the Soviet Union convinced Mao that the Russian Revolution had gone astray, which

Newly Released Documents Detail Traumas Of China's Cultural RevolutionHistorian Frank Dikötter says newly opened archives offer fresh details about the chaos China experienced in the 1960s, when Chairman Mao urged students to take to the streets.

BBC Arts - BBC Arts - Seeing red: The propaganda art of China’s Cultural RevolutionA new visual culture celebrated workers, soldiers, industrial progress and Chairman Mao

Teaching Red Scarf GirlUse this guide to Ji-li Jiang’s engaging memoir set during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution in China to help students explore themes of conformity, obedience, and prejudice.

Videos

BBC gives a brief overview of China's Cultural Revolution.

A son who denounced his mother during China's Cultural Revolution reflects on the Revolution and his part in his mother's execution.

Nanjing Atrocities

(Sometimes spelled Nanking)

1937 - 1939

Overview

Nanjing_Massacre.pdf

Websites

Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)

This site has a number of documents and photographs about the Nanjing Massacre. This includes diaries, eyewitness statements, photographs and more.

Please note that some links on the website no longer work, but the majority of them do.

Nanjing Massacre | History, Summary & FactsNanjing Massacre, conventional Nanking Massacre, also called Rape of Nanjing, (December 1937–January 1938), mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on December 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II. The number of Chinese killed in the massacre has been subject to much debate, with most estimates ranging from 100,000 to more than 300,000. The destruction of Nanjing—which had been the capital of the Nationalist Chinese from 1928 to 1937—was ordered by Matsui Iwane, commanding general of the Japanese Central China

The Yale University Nanking Massacre Archival Project

"This web site provides access to first hand accounts and photographs from Westerners who remained in Nanking after the Japanese invasion. These resources do not provide a comprehensive understanding of what occurred in Nanjing during 1937-1938, but the observations made by these men and women provide an important historical lens to complement additional research."

Canada Association for Learning and Preservation the History of WWII in Asia: Survivor and Witness Testimonies

"The mission of [the organization] BC ALPHA is to foster understanding, redress, and reconciliation related to the tragedies of WW II in Asia. [They] also support the long-overdue redress for victims of the Asian Holocaust. The ultimate aim of ALPHA is to work for peace and justice."

Memories of the Nanjing Massacre

"This exhibit focuses on the memories of the Nanjing Massacre of December 1937."

Videos

This video gives an overview of the Nanjing killings done by the Japanese army in China at the beginning of WWII.

In this full length interview, Xia Shuqin, an activist and survivor of the Nanjing massacre, tells her story.

"Xia Shuqin was 8 years old when most of her family was murdered in their home during the Nanjing Massacre. In December 1937, the Japanese army killed some 300,000 civilians and unarmed soldiers over the course of two months in the massacre."

Wang Gui-Ying recalls her story about the events at Nanjing.

Survivor's Testimony: Nanking Massacre - Zhang Xiu-Hong

A Nanjing survivor tells her story.

Uyghurs

(Sometimes spelled Uighurs)

2014 - Present

Websites

Uyghurs Case Study: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a designated page the gives an overview of what is happening to the Uyghur population in China.

Council on Foreign Relations

China’s Repression of Uyghurs in XinjiangMore than a million Muslims have been arbitrarily detained in China’s Xinjiang region. The reeducation camps are just one part of the government’s crackdown on Uyghurs.

Yale University: Persecution of the Uyghur population in Western China

Yale has compiled a number of resources about what is happening to the Uyghurs in China.

Uyghur Human Rights ProjectThe Uyghur Human Rights Project promotes the rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan (Xinjiang) through research-based advocacy.

Videos

BBC reports on what China says is going on in their re-education camps, vs what seems to be the reality of the situation.

Journalists pose as tourists while they visit the heavily policed areas in China where Uyghurs are being arrested and "re-educated."

The BBC reports on the credible accusations of crimes against humanity and genocide coming out of China.