Songs of China's Cultural Revolution

William A. Joseph
Department of Political Science
Wellesley College

The East is Red Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman The People of the World Will Surely Be Victorious! Long Live Chairman Mao! I Love Beijing's Tiananmen! March of the Revolutionary Youth We are Chairman Mao's Red Guards I am a Little Member of the Commune Little Ping Pong Ball The Force at the Core Leading Our Cause (A Quotation from Chairman Mao) Other Cultural Revolution Songs on YouTube (No Translations) A Red Sun At The Center Of Our Hearts Golden Sun Rises In East Sun Rises Shining Everywhere Kindness Of Mao Song Of Oil Workers Sun Over Prairie Sheep On Grassland

For an interesting essay on Cultural Revolution music, see
Songs of the Red Guards: Keywords Set to Music
by Vivian Wagner (University of Heidelberg)

See also
"Serve the People": Daily Life in China During the Cultural Revolution

For more on China's Politics and Political History (including the Cultural Revolution), see
China Politics Links

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