1. The amount published in English on the G.P.C.R. is now so large that it is difficult to select a few truly authoritative studies. They range from documentary translations and collections and foreign residents’ reports to various levels of analysis and interpretation: for example The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (Peking, 1966); Union Research Institute, C.C.P. Documents of the G.P.C.R., 1966–1967 (Hong Kong, 1968); reports by Neale Hunter, Shanghai Journal: An Eye-witness Account of the Cultural Revolution (New York, 1969), and D. W. Fokkema, Report from Peking: Observations of a Western Diplomat on the Cultural Revolution (London, 1971); works mentioned in the notes to ch. 6 by Schram in Authority, Participation and Cultural Change; Robinson (ed.), Cultural Revolution, Dittmer, Liu Shao-ch’i, and Solomon, Mao’s Revolution; broader interpretations by Robert J. Lifton, Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (New York, 1968), E. L. Wheelwright and Bruce McFarlane, The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution (New York, 1970).
2. Parris H. Chang, Radicals and Radical Ideology in China’s Cultural Revolution (New York, 1973); James R. Pusey, Wu Han: Attacking the Present through the Past (East Asian Research Center, Harvard, 1969); Schram, Mao Unrehearsed, pp. 234–79.
3. ‘Decision of the C.C.P. Central Committee Concerning the G.P.C.R.’, Peking Review (12 August 1966). Compare, for example, Dittmer, Liu Shao-ch’i; Chang, Radicals and Radical Ideology and Simon Leys, Les Habits Neufs du Président Mao (Paris, 1971).
4. Dittmer, Liu Shao-ch’i, ch. 4; A. E. Kent, Indictment without Trial; The Case of Liu Shao-ch’i (Canberra, 1969).
5. Gittings, The Chinese Army, chs 11 and 12; and his ‘Army— Party Relations in the Light of the Cultural Revolution’ in Lewis (ed.), Party Leadership, pp. 373–403. Also see Ellis Joffe, ‘The Chinese Army under Lin Piao: Prelude to Political Intervention’, in Lindbeck (ed.), China: Management, pp. 343—74.