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Peking Review – 1972

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 1972:

• Fourth Five-year Plan – First year’s success
• The theory of two points
• US – Soviet scramble for hegemony in South Asian subcontinent and Indian Ocean
• Multi-purpose use – Turning the harmful into the beneficial
• Some understanding from studying ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’
• Women’s Liberation in China
• Chairman Mao meets President Nixon
• The principle of Acupunctural Anaesthesia
• Flourishing minority nationality areas
• How Engels criticised Duhring’s apriorism – notes on studying ‘Anti-Duhring’
• China’s stand on question of rights over seas and oceans
• Shanghai – in a new workers’ quarter
• Attach importance to the role of teachers by negative example
• Cambodian People’s War against US aggression and for national salvation will win
• Superpowers’ contention for hegemony in the Mediterranean
• Premier Kim Il Sung’s 60th birthday greeted
• The Vietnamese people will win, the US aggressor will be defeated
• Greeting 40th anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army
• China’s principled stand on relations of international economy and trade
• Heroic Vietnamese people cannot be intimidated
• The ‘May 7’ Cadre school
• Literary and art workers must go among the masses
• Adherence to Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line means victory – in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s ‘Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art’ – Selected Works Volume 3, p69
• Why is it necessary to study world history
• Japanese people demand complete return of Okinawa
• Africa advances with big strides in fighting in unity – warmly greeting 9th anniversary of African Liberation Day
• Arts and crafts in China
• Struggle between theory of classes and theory of human nature in literature and art
• Arab people’s just struggle will triumph
• China’s stand on the question of human environment
• Building up the people’s health
• New success in the cause of African Unity against imperialism
• On studying some history about imperialism
• A just cause against aggression is invincible – commemorating 22nd anniversary of Korea’s Fatherland Liberation War
• The masses are the makers of history
• Grasp the general trend of historical development – notes on studying ‘On the Chungking Negotiations’ – Selected Works Volume 4, p53
• Carry the glorious tradition forward – in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
• Hail Vietnamese people’s fresh victory
• 2,100 year old tomb excavated, contents well preserved
• The laws of class struggle in the Socialist period
• Relationship between agriculture, light industry and heavy industry
• Greeting the Vietnamese people’s national day
• Israeli aggression against Syria and Lebanon condemned
• We are advancing – China’s achievements in Socialist economic construction
• Why prices are stable in China
• Overcoming Empiricism – notes on studying Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ in Lenin, Works,  Volume 14
• Third World countries play increasingly important role in international affairs
• China’s stand on disarmament
• On studying some history of the National Liberation Movement
• Soviet proposal on disarmament is a fraud
• Greeting the Albanian people‘s glorious festivals
• Carved in the cliffs – the story of the Red Flag Canal
• Experience and practice – notes on studying philosophy
• Always be one with the working people – notes on studying ‘The Civil War in France’
• Public ownership of the means of production in China
• On the road of mechanisation – the struggle of Hopei’s Tsunhua County in mechanising farm production
• US air attacks on DRVN denounced
• Yields high despite drought – Tachai Brigade’s year end report

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

There’s an index for articles in Nos. 1 – 26 in issue No 26 and an index in issue No 52 for Nos. 27 -52.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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