Dai Sijie: NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1140091
A downloadable audio interview with Dai Sijie, conducted by NPR reporter Lisa Simeone.
Artistic Odyssey: Film to Fiction to Film
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/27/movies/MoviesFeatures/27balz.html?_r=0
An article describing how Dai adapted Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress to film.
Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages
http://chineseposters.net/themes/up-to-the-mountains.php
A collection of Chinese propaganda posters from the Cultural Revolution era.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, 1966-1976
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cultrev.htm
Historical background about the Cultural Revolution.
Mao's Down to the Countryside Movement: Re-Education or Lost Opportunities?
http://73850888.nhd.weebly.com/experiences.html
A series of interviews with people who were re-educated.