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Clark, Paul (2008). The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-87515-8. Explores the culture produced including the eight "model operas."
Lois Wheeler Snow, China on Stage: An American Actress in the People's Republic (New York: Random House, 1972) ISBN0394468740. A sympathetic eyewitness account. Includes texts of several plays, and a glossary of Chinese theater and dance terms.
Barbara Mittler. A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2012). ISBN9780674065819.
Roberts, Rosemary A. (2010). Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Leiden; Boston: Brill. ISBN9789004177444., Reviewed, Colin Mackerras, Journal of Asian Studies 69. 4 (November 2010): 1208-1210.