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East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
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History of The People's Republic of China (1949- )
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China 1957 Photo Album A gallery of photos by Robert Carl Cohen
Chinese Anniversaries in International Perspective Elizabeth J. Perry's reflections on the anniversaries of the May 4th Movement, the height of the Cultural Revolution, & the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising
Chinese Pop Posters Collected & captioned by Olivier Laude; "produced by the central government .. & reflect the many political changes of ... Communist rule"
Content-Rich Chinese Posters 1949-1997 Grouped by period: the early years (1949-1965); the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976); the period of modernization up to the present (1977-1997)
CNN In-Depth Specials - Visions of China Examination of 50 years of the People's Republic of China & prospects for the next half century
Design of the Current Chinese Flag Overview with a translated article about the early history of the flag
Fairbank Chinese History Library: People's Republic of China (1949-Present) Section of Rob Gray's virtual library of Chinese history: articles, maps, images, sounds
Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic A exhibition featuring the work of numerous photographers -- organized and produced by Aperture Foundation in association with Asia Society
"One Finger's Worth of Historical Events": New Russian & Chinese Evidence on the Sino-Soviet Alliance & Split, 1948-1959 Cold War International History Project Working Paper #30 by David Wolff (PDF format)
Selling China: www.cnta.com & Cultural Nationalism An article by Todd Munson in the Journal for MultiMedia History (Vol. 2, 1999)
Sinophilia: Chinese Contemporary History Reports from the PRC; propagandist publications; propagandist art
Time Asia:The 50 Places That Define Modern China Essays on 50 places where history was made, and province stories with clickable map
NewTimeline: China A chronology of key events since 1986 compiled by BBC News
Tracking the Dragon: Selected National Intelligence Estimates on China, 1948-1976 Collection of declassified National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) on China, "chronicl[ing] the struggles within the top leadership, the buildup of the Chinese military, and the evolution of the Sino-Soviet split"
Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism Benedict Anderson's "Reflections from Taiwan on the history of creole and official, linguistic and long-distance nationalisms in Asia and Europe, and their implications for China" (New Left Review, May-June 2001)
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See also the page on the Cultural Revolution. For other pages on Chinese history, see general sources; historical maps; archaeology & prehistory; early history; the imperial era through the Yuan; late imperial era; late Qing & the Republic; the Chinese Communist Movement; the 2nd Sino-Japanese War; the Korean War. For modern Chinese political leaders, see the pages on Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, & Deng Xiaoping.

  
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