Something new:
Intruder In Mao’s Realm, by British academic Richard Kirkby, provides an insider’s view of China in the final throes of the Cultural Revolution and its immediate aftermath.
Intruder in Mao’s Realm is published by Earnshaw Books (Hong Kong) Ltd in paperback and eBook
TK
For those interested in foreigners at Fudan etc after CR:
Abenteuer China
DAAD-Alumni aus vier Jahrzehnten erinnern sich ; ein Lesebuch
Birk, Klaus [Red.]
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
For those interested in foreigners at Fudan etc before CR:
Communist China in retrospect
East European sinologists remember the first fifteen years of the PRC
Marie-Luise Näth (Hrsg.)
Yours
T. Kampen
The PRC History Group presents the latest installment in the Document of the Month series, curated by Michael Schoenhals. View the entire series at prchistory.org.
"劳动是必修课"！——复旦大学外国留学生《守则》、《考勤制度》、《生活制度》等（1975年）
(click on the title to view the document)
The two latest issues of Yesterday are now available at http://prchistory.org/yesterday/
H-PRC members might be especially interested in issue #79, which includes a 20-page list of names (with short biographical sketches) of people in the Chinese film industry who died in the course of the Cultural Revolution (including actors, directors, script writers, translators, photographers, etc.).
This is a good review of five works (in English and Chinese) on the Maoist era.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/china-the-virtues-of-the-awful-convulsion/
Remembering Delia
There is another compelling memorial to Delia by John Gittings in The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/delia-davin-obituary
Here's another brief recollection.
Delia arrived in Tokyo from China perhaps en route back to England for a brief
research visit, perhaps in 1973. She also threw herself into the work of Beheiren (Japan Peace for
Vietnam Committee) and its international affiliate (Gaijin Beheiren) participating, and Lucy
From Chen Shehong, on remembering Delia Davin
Delia Davin—Teacher and Humanitarian
Chen Shehong
Delia Davin, a scholar who helped bring questions of gender to the center of China Studies, has died at home in Leeds, England after a long illness. She was Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds.
Dear colleagues,
With apologies for cross-posting, I am pleased to announce the recent publication of my book
Yi Wu, Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family (A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University). University of Hawaii Press, 2016, 304 pages, ISBN: 978-0824846770.
Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in the Sinophone World
March 25-26, 2017
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis
