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  (A Quotation from Chairman Mao)

For further reading, see
Songs of the Red Guards: Keywords Set to Music, Vivian Wagner (University of Heidelberg)
Mao-Era Revolutionary Music, Jeffery Hayes
Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution: Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities, by Laikwan Pang (Editor), Paul Clark (Editor), Tsan-Huang Tsai (Editor)

For photos of China in 1972, see
"Serve the People":
Daily Life in China During the Cultural Revolution

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• Prof. William A. Joseph, Wellesley College (wjoseph@wellesley.edu)
• Date Created: AUGUST 28, 2000
• Last Modified: June 2019
• Expires: June 30, 2022