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Peking Review – 1975

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 1975:

• Building oil industry through self-reliance
• Thirteen consecutive years of rich harvests
• Rise of Third World and decline of Hegemonism
• Study the historical experience of the struggle between the Confucian and Legalist Schools
• Communique of the Second Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
• Advance victoriously along Chairman Mao‘s line in army building
• Greeting 45th anniversary of the Vietnam Workers’ Party
• Great strategic measure for carrying out People’s War
• Study well the theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• China’s biggest hydro-power station
• Warsaw Treaty Organisation: Soviet Social-Imperialism’s tool for aggression
• Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• Build a theoretical force for combatting and preventing Revisionism
• On the social basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party clique
• Working women’s struggle against Confucianism in Chinese hisotry
• Historical tasks of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• Cambodian people’s triumphant advance is irresistible
• Granting special amnesty to and releasing all war criminals in custody
• Smith regime’s racist atrocity
• On exercising all-round dictatorship over the bourgeoisie
• Socialism is the class dictatorship of the proletariat
• Criticise the doctrines of Confucius and Mencius to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat
• Peking rally celebrates liberation of Phnom Penh
• A great victory of world significance – warmly congratulating the South Vietnamese armed forces and people on liberation of Saigon
• Commemorating 30th anniversary of victory over German Fascism
• The touchstone for testing genuine and sham Marxism
• Keep on criticising the bourgeoisie – notes on studying Chairman Mao‘s ‘Letter concerning studies of ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber”
• Ideological weapon for restricting bourgeois right – notes on studying Chairman Mao’s ‘Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’
• Going in for agriculture in a big way – how a province of 40 million people solved its grain problem
• ‘Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty’: a scrap of paper
• Great victory of Korean People’s Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Struggle – commemorating 25th anniversary of the Korean Fatherland Liberation War
• Warm congratulations on rebirth of Mozambique
• Profound revolution on the health front
• Fundamental charter for consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat
• The Brezhnev clique is following Hitler’s beaten track
• Competition in space, hardship on Earth
• Soviet Revisionists stir up civil war in Angola
• Study some history of social development
• 35 countries table draft resolution on Korea at United Nations
• Commemorating 30th anniversary of victory in War of Resistance Against Japan
• Unfold criticism of ‘Water Margin’
• Tibet advances along the Socialist Road
• 26th anniversary of Founding of People’s Republic of China celebrated
• Steady growth of China’s economy
• A resplendent course of struggle – congratulating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea
• In commemoration of 40th anniversary of victory of the Long March
• Build Tachai-type counties throughout the country
• New Tsar’s feverish arms expansion and war preparations
• Albanian Liberation Day celebrated
• Founding of People’s Democratic Republic of Laos warmly greeted
• South China Sea islands, Chinese territory since ancient times
• Grasping the dialectical concept of the unity of opposites
• Second World develops economic relations with Third World

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 the first part of the year in issue No. 26 and one for issues 27 – 52 in No. 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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