Saturday, November 01, 2003
GPCR
Middle-aged China hands like me will recognize that as the acronym for the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" (wenhua da geming) of the 1960s and '70s. Surfing China blogs, I came across Morning Sun, a site devoted to the history of the Cultural Revolution. This is a tough subject to approach without strong feelings, but the site does a good job of laying out a mix of contemporaneous documents and images and more recent commentary and explication. I was fascinated by History for the Masses, an essay written in the early 1990s by Geremie R. Barme about the process of looking back at the GPCR that had gone on since the "official" end of the Cultural Revolution in 1978. Overall this site is great resource.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 10:02 PM
