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I'm looking for info on Mao and China from 1958-76. Does anybody have any info, or anything to point me in the right direction?

There are a huge number of books around about China, libraries or book shops should have some in stock. Have you searched H2G2 itself for anything? That would be my first starting point. How about the internet? Loads of search engines including [Url Removed by Moderator] ro [Url Removed by Moderator][Url Removed by Moderator]

Have fun.

Try "google". It's (IMO) the best serach engine on the net and its address is com pletely obvious...

Use the first link on 'My Space' to see my links page. There is a link to the info you need.

Alji

Aww come on! You could go to any library and find tons of books on that. No reason to ask us with such a major topic.

Not everyone lives near a library or good book shop. We have a mobile library that comes 'round every two weeks. If you want a special book you have to order it.

Alji

I'm just posting queries on places that I know of with people who are willing to answer them, Xanatic. Opinions vary widely on why things happened, and little-known bits of information are difficult to come by. I figure, the sooner I ask the question, the more likely it is that I will get some info that I never could have found elsewhere. I'll probably narrow the topic as my deadline closes in, but as is, I just started.

Yes, I have tried Google, and it is immensely helpful, except that it keeps directing me to places where I can buy books on the subject.

And thank you, everybody, for the info you've given me already.

You could try the "-" option as in "-buy" or "-order"

You should try asking the autist formerly known as flinch. He seems to be up on communist history, although he's a tad to sympathtic with them for my taste.

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But then so was McCarthy right Two Bit

Do you still need info? I'll knock up a quick early years before i go out, and post it here, then i'll do the important stuff tomorrow if you like.

I think I could be helpful if you had more specific questions

I read the huge "MAO" biography (which is an enourmous tome) so ask away Grasshopper....

The book is "MAO: A life" by Philip Short, published by Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-75198-3

if you can get to a uni library then try to look at the periodicals. they are often neglected because it is a nightmare to find anything in them, but you will please your teacher by trying. a good way to accomplish this it too look in the bibliographies of all those books you are buying. you will fin the same thing comes up again and again.

for example, i have a book on archaological conservation, the bibliography runs to bout ten pages of very small print. but about half of the entries are from, Antiquity, American scientific and research paper by the the gettysburg insitute. etc. includung british museum, international counsil.

if you find a certain journal/peridoical/serieal regularly features then it is worth a trip to the archives. most do have an index volume, but it will have probably have ben nicked. you might have to just browse the volume index in each volume. of course, going to the articles that were mentioned in your text book is anopther idea.

this is a good way to get things written at the time. what was the american perspective, the enllish, the australian.

can you read cantonese or mandarine, you'd be suprised how many uni library actaully hols foreign language publication.

also, ask a librarian, some places have an electronic index which lists articles from journals. there is one for Law for example. thre maybe one that covers history/politics/social studies.

what direction are you coming at this from...are you IN china? or are ou an outsider looking in, if so you need to be aware where and when your evidence is soming from. soething written at the height of the macarthyparanoia era in the states is going to have a very different agenda then something written last year in australia.

also, some periodicles are available on line, but you might have to go trhough a uni server to get at them. if you are not a memebr of a uni library but there is one near you then you can usually get in with a letter of introduction from a teacher.


good luck

FABT