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Peking Review – 1966
Peking Review was the weekly political and informative magazine published between 1958 and 1978. With issue No 1 of 1979 the magazine was renamed Beijing Review, the new name bringing with it a new direction in the People’s Republic of China and was an open statement of the reintroduction of capitalism in the erstwhile Socialist Republic.
The issues and topics included in 1966:
- The leaders of the CPSU are betrayers of the Declaration and the Statement
- A new and great anti-US revolutionary storm is approaching – Chen Yi
- China back Cambodia against US war threats
- The truth about China-Cuba trade
- PLA Conference on political work
- The tide of anti-imperialist revolutionary struggle is irresistible
- Art goes to the villages
- Be a conscious revolutionary
- Sato’s policy speech – confession of the Japanese reactionaries
- Confessions concerning the line of the Soviet-US collaboration pursued by the new leaders of the CPSU
- Self reliance in developing the textile industry
- Renmin Ribao editor’s note on Prime Minister Castro’s anti-China statement
- Chairman Liu Shao-chi on Vietnam Question
- In Yantang People’s Commune
- Reactionary coup d’etat in Ghana
- China protests against outrages by Indonesian right-wing forces
- Reply of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party to the CPSU Central Committee
- War threat of US Imperialism must be take seriously
- Putting politics first is fundamental to all work
- Hold high the Great Red Banner of Mao Tse-tung‘s thinking; actively participate in the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution
- Warm welcome for envoys from fraternal Albania
- China successfully conducts nuclear explosion containing thermonuclear material
- Workers, peasants and soldiers creatively study and apply Mao Tse-tung’s philosophical thinking
- Mao Tse-tung’s Thought – beacon of revolution for the world’s people
- Tear aside the bourgeois mask of ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’
- Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
- Chairman Mao has elevated Marxism-Leninism to a completely new stage with great talent
- Carry out the Cultural Revolution thoroughly and transform the educational system completely
- Long Live Mao Tse-tung’s Thought
- Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art
- Peking mass rally condemns US bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
- Chairman Mao swims in the Yangtse
- The whole country should become a great school of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought
- CPC Central Committee decides on large scale publication of Chairman Mao’s Works
- Decision of CPC Central Committee concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
- Repudiate Revisionist Programme of Chou Yang, ringleader of sinister gang in literary and art circles
- Red Guards destroy the old and establish the new
- Take firm hold of the Revolution and stimulate production
- Mao Tse-tung’s Thought is the soul of the revolutionary people
- Red Guards fear not the trials of a distant march
- Commemorate Lu Hsun, the great stand bearer on the cultural front
- Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s message of greetings to 5th Congress of Albanian Party of Labour
- Centenary of Dr Sun Yat-sen’s birth commemorated
- Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s message to Comrade Enver Hoxha
- China’s peasant advance valiantly along the road pointed out by Chairman Mao
- The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Available issues of Peking Review:
1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
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Beijing Review
From issue No. 1 of 1979 the weekly political and informative magazine Peking Review changed its name to Beijing Review. On page 3 of that number the editors made the open declaration of the change in the direction of the erstwhile ‘People’s Republic of China’.
By stating that the Communist Party of China (under the control then of Teng Hsiao-Ping/Deng Xiaoping ) sought
‘to accomplish socialist modernisation by the end of the century and turn China …. into an economically developed and fully democratic socialist country’
the CPC was openly declaring the rejection of the revolutionary path, which the country had been following since 1949, and the adoption of the road that would inevitably lead to the full scale establishment of capitalism.
For those who would like to follow this downward spiral into the murky depths of capitalism and imperialism in the issues of Beijing Review (complete for the years 1979-1990 – intermittently thereafter) you can do so by going to bannedthought – which also serves as an invaluable resource for more material about China during its revolutionary phase.
