REDISCOVERING CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION:
Art and Politics, Lived Experience, Legacies of Liberation

A three-day symposium November 6-8, UC Berkeley

Friday Nov 6

5 pm: Poster Art of the Cultural Revolution, Art Opening and guided tour

Wurster Hall Lobby

6:30 pm: Book Event: The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village with author Dongping Han*

Saturday:

1 pm: Art and Politics in the Cultural Revolution:  Bai Di, Ban Wang, Ann Tompkins and Lincoln Cushing

4 pm: The International Impact and Historical Significance of the Cultural Revolution:  Dongping Han, Raymond Lotta, Robert Weil

7:30 pm:  Benefit Banquet with speakers.  Call Revolution Books for info

Friday through Sunday (Nov 6-8) : Poster Art Exhibit at Wurster Hall: Chinese Posters from the Cultural Revolution

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FEW EVENTS IN MODERN HISTORY are more deserving of rediscovery than China’s Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.  Few have so challenged traditional notions of what human society can be.  Few have been as distorted and demonized.

Hear from youth who went to the countryside to work and learn from the peasants... artists who set out to create revolutionary art...women who struggled against feudal tradition...people who look back at this period as some of the best years of their lives.  And learn from scholars whose work brings to life a crucial and vital legacy of liberation.

Panelists include:

Lincoln Cushing—Historian and archivist of social and political graphics, co-author Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Bai Di—Director of Chinese and Asian Studies, Drew University; co-editor of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up During the Mao Era.

Dongping Han—Professor of History, Warren Wilson College; author of The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village; farmer and manager of a collective village factory during the Cultural Revolution.

Raymond Lotta—Set the Record Straight Project; Maoist political economist; writer for Revolution newspaper; author of America in Decline; editor Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism.

Ann Tompkins– lived and worked in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution and is co-author of Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Ban Wang - Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, Stanford University, author, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma,Memory,and History in Modern China (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Robert Weil – Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute, author of Red Cat, White Cat: China and the Contradictions of “Market Socialism”

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Sponsored by Revolution Books. Co-sponsored by Set the Record Straight Project (* A program of International Humanities Center, a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) ) and UC student club Friends of Revolution Books

*Friday book event co-sponsored by Monthly Review Press

Full schedule available at www.revolutionbooks.org.  For more info,call 510-848-1196

Email: revbooks_event@yahoo.com 

REVOLUTION BOOKS, 2425 Channing Way Berkeley, CA  94704