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=== Gao Hua (高华). 《红太阳是怎样升起的》 (“How the Red Sun Rose”). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2000/2011. ===
—The definitive analysis of secret case-handling structures inside the Party during the Yan’an Rectification and early PRC.

Yang Kuisong (杨奎松). The Ideology of the Organization Department. Various articles.
—Essential on internal security, dossiers, and investigatory chains.

Xu Youyu (徐友渔). “专案制度的历史与逻辑” (“The History and Logic of the Special Case System”). Open Times (开放时代), 2012.
—A rare systematic Chinese-language study of 专案制度.

Wu Yulun (吴玉伦). 《中国公安制度史》. 北京：中国人民公安大学出版社, 2005.
—Chapters on internal surveillance, special investigations, and Party–police command structures.

Michael Schoenhals. “Political Campaigns and Mass Mobilization in Mao’s China.” In The Cambridge History of China, vol. 14.
—Explains the organizational logic of case-handling groups and parallel authority lines.

Andrew G. Walder & Yang Su. “The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside.” China Quarterly 173 (2003).
—Includes descriptions of local special-case work teams and informal investigative hierarchies.

Lu, Xiaobo & Perry Link (eds.). Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Cultural Revolution. University of California Press, 1999.
—Numerous testimonies involve being placed under “special case” monitoring or handled by ad hoc investigative groups.

Teiwes, Frederick C. Politics and Purges in China. M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
—Masterful analysis of elite-level special-case logic, mirrored at lower administrative levels.