Have you read Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed yet? It isn’t quite what you are looking for but covers the revolution itself from a first hand account

I don’t see anything wrong with this list. I’ve read the majority of works listed here and would say if you read all of these you’ll be quite well read, but don’t stop once you are done here.

Personally I’ve never liked classifying things as beginner, intermediate, or advanced and just read what I feel like at the time.

Sometimes it is also easier to read a few works in a row by the same author. For example you have Lenin spread in different levels but it might be easier to read those one after another since these authors do all have a bit of stylistic differences and when they are mentioning other people you won’t have to look up the person repeatedly if they are fresh in your mind from their other works

More or less yes you did American English correctly. More often I just refer to them as semis without adding the truck part, some also call them tractor trailers. It was clear what you meant though so only need to change it slightly if you are going for full American English

So a bit of background info, I’ve read all 4 volumes of The Governance of China.

Xi is most definitely in the same camp as the ‘reform and open up’ crowd, so a revisionist. He supports the market and wants to open more industries to the market and remove government involvement in some areas.

That said I can respect the crackdown on corruption and the elimination of poverty even though I don’t like how pro private business it was