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Chen Ziming 陈子明: Wen ji 4. Minzhu Yundong zai Zhongguo 文集4。民主运动在中国 (Collected writings 4. The Democracy Movement in China). Shijie Huawen Chuban Jigou 世界华文出版机构. Hong Kong 2010
Chen Ziming 陈子明: Xianzheng de mengya. 1980 nian jingxuan yundong 宪政的萌芽。1980年竞选运动 (Emerging constitutionalism. The election campaign of 1980). 2 volumes. Zhenxiang Chubanshe 真相出版社. Hong Kong 2013
Cheng Du 程度: Zhongguo zhengzhi xianzai que jietou zhengzhi zhe wie yao - Wang Juntao zhuanfang 中国政治现在缺街头政治这味药 —— 王军涛专访 (Chinese politics currently lacks the cure of street politics - an interview with Wang Juntao, In: Neimu 内幕 (Internal News), 29.02.2014 (from the website 中国茉莉花革命/Jasmine Revolution in China, retrieved 01.11.2017)
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Cha Jianying 查建英: Bashi niandai fangtan lu 八十年代访谈录 (Talking with people on the eighties). Sanlian Shudian 三联书店. Peking 2006
Ding Dong 丁東, Xing Xiaoqun 邢小群 (Eds.): Bashi niandai Zhongguo zhenggai yaozhe neimu - qinlizhe koushu shilu 八十年代中國政改夭折內幕 -- 親歷者口述實錄 (How China's political reforms of the 80s came to an early end - Recordings of eye-witness accounts). Dashan Wenhua Chubanshe 大山文化出版社/Great Mountain Culture. Hong Kong 2015 [The interviews were mainly made from 2008-2009.]
Gong, Sasha [Gong Xiaoxia 龚小夏]: Born American. A Chinese Woman's Dream of Liberty. Nimble Books LLC. Ann Arbor, MI 2009
Guo Luoji 郭罗基: Yi chang weida er duanzan de sixiang jiefang yundong (qi) - jinian zhenli biaozhun taolun sanshi zhounian 场伟大而短暂的思想解放运动(七) -- 纪念真理标准讨论三十周年 (A great, but short-lived movement to liberate thinking (7) - commemorating 30 years of debating the criterion of truth). In: Minzhuzhongguo.org 民主中国 (USA), 1.8.2009, retrieved 8.11.2017
He Qiu 何求: Guangzhou minkan "Renmin zhi Lu" zhubian He Qiu zishu 广州民刊《人民之路》主编何求自述 (Memories of He Qiu, chief editor of the independent Guangzhou journal "The Path of the People"). In: Observer/Guanchajia 观察家, nr. 36, Hong Kong, October 1980, pp. 12-14
Hu Jiwei 胡绩伟: Hu Yaobang yu Xidan Minzhuqiang 胡耀邦与西单民主墙 (Hu Yaobang and the Xidan Democracy Wall). In: Boxun.com (USA), 22.4.2004, retrieved 4.2.2014. Translation into English by Andrew Chubb: Hu Yaobang and the Xidan Democracy Wall. In: Danwei Chinese media, advertising, and urban life. Posted on February 9, 2011 (retrieved 26.10.2017)
Hu Ping 胡平: Jinian Minzhuqiang ershi zhounian 纪年民主墙二十周年 (Twentieth anniversary of the Democracy Wall). In: Beijing zhi Chun 北京之春/Beijing Spring (USA), 14.12.2003, retrieved 4.2.2014
Hu Ping 胡平: 80 nian Beijing gaoxiao jingxuan huodong jianjie 80年北京高校竞选活动简介 (The 1980 elections at the colleges and universities of Beijing). From: Radio Free Asia, Mandarin Service 自由亚洲电台普通话, Washington DC, Sept. 10, 2006, retrieved 01.11.2017
Huang Xiang [黄翔]: Poet on Fire inside Communist China. Translated by Li Zavidny with William Rock. Century Mountain, (USA) 2011
Lei Yi 雷颐: Jingshen de nianlun 精神的年轮 (Growth rings of the mind). Fudan Daxue Chubanshe 复旦大学出版社/Fudanpress. Shanghai 2011
Li Baowen 李宝雯: Renwu zhuanfang. Chenji nianduo nian Zhongguo zishen weiquan nüjiang Fu Yuehua 人物专访﹕沉寂廿多年的中国资深维权女将傅月华 (Exclusive interview: Fu Yuehua, China‘s senior female campaigner for human rights after 20 years of silence), Radio Free Asia (Washington D.C.), 22.02.2006; text in Mandarin, audio (9:53) in Mandarin and Cantonese; retrieved 4.2.2014
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Ou Pulei 欧普雷 [Helmut Opletal]: Fangwen Beijing minban kanwu “Si Wu Luntan“ fuzeren Xu Wenli 访问四五论坛负责人徐文立 (Interview with Xu Wenli, responsible person of the private journal “April 5th Forum”). In: Observer/Guanchajia 观察家, nr. 22, Hong Kong, August 1979, pp. 4-10
Tang Xiaodu 唐晓渡: Mang Ke fangtan lu: Shi guo jing qian hua "Jintian" 芒克访谈录:时过境迁话《今天》(Conversation with Mang Ke: Things have changed speaking on "Today"). In: Poetry Institute of China / Zhongguo Shige Xiehui 中国诗歌协会, 26.5.2014 (retrieved 26.11.2017)
Tang Xin 唐欣: Xidan Minzhuqiang he Zhongyang Zhengzhi Tizhi Gaige Yanjiushi de huiyi 西単民主牆和中央政治体制改革研究室的回憶 (Memories of the Xidan Democracy Wall and the Research Department of the Central Committee for Reforms of the Political System). In: Ding Dong 丁東, Xing Xiaoqun 邢小群 (Eds.): Bashi niandai Zhongguo zhenggai yaozhe neimu - qinlizhe koushu shilu 八十年代中國政改夭折內幕 -- 親歷者口述實錄 (How China's political reforms of the 80s came to an early end - recordings of eye-witness accounts). Dashan Wenhua Chubanshe 大山文化出版社/Great Mountain Culture. Hong Kong 2015 [interviews from 2008-2009]
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Yu Guangyuan 于光远: 1978 nian wo qinli de neici lishi da zhuanbian: Shiyi qie San-Zhong Quanhui de tai qian mu hou 1978 年我亲历的那次历史大转变;十一届三中全会的台前幕後 (The big historical change that I have personally experienced in 1978: In front and behind the scenes of the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee). 天地图书出版/Cosmos Books. Hong Kong 2008
Zhang Xianyang 张显扬: Lilun Gongzuo Wuxuhui de yuanqi, guocheng he yiyi 理论工作务虚会的缘起、过程和意义 (Origins, process and significance of the Forum on Theoretical Work). In: Ding Dong 丁東, Xing Xiaoqun 邢小群 (Eds.): Bashi niandai Zhongguo zhenggai yaozhe neimu - qinlizhe koushu shilu 八十年代中國政改夭折內幕 -- 親歷者口述實錄 (How China's political reforms of the 80s came to an early end - Recordings of Eye-Witness Accounts). Dashan Wenhua Chubanshe 大山文化出版社/Great Mountain Culture. Hong Kong 2015
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