01 Feb 2005

Morning Sun. A Film and Website about Cultural Revolution
Long Bow Group, Brookline, MA, USA
Self description: "A range of techniques and perspectives are used in the Morning Sun website to reflect on the origins and history of the Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976)."
Supplied note: "The site makes extensive use of sound and film excerpts to evoke a very lively picture of the time. The quoted texts can be read in both Chinese and English, while the film or song plays. There is also a 'Search Site' function (Google) available under 'Site Map' - hl."
Site contents: (1) About the Site; (2) Living Revolution (Listen to period music, watch excerpts from feature films, and read items such as the Little Red Book, personal diaries, and magazine articles); (3) Smash the Old World! (Read about the Four Olds, view photographs and posters); (4) Reddest Red Sun (Explore aspects of the Mao cult from buttons to medical miracles); (5) Stages of History (State-orchestrated history unfolds through dramatic events, from parades on Tiananmen Square to revolutionary model operas); (6) The East is Red (Read about The East is Red, its history and transformation from a simple folk tune to a stage epic on China's revolutionary history); (7) The Film; (8) Multimedia; (9) Images; (10) Library; (11) Sitemap.
URL http://www.morningsun.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.morningsun.org/
Link reported by: Hanno E. Lecher / Internet Guide for ChinaStudies (h.e.lecher--at--let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000