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Peking Review – 1976
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 1976:
- Nothing is hard in this world if you dare to scale the heights
- Twelve million school graduates settle in the countryside
- Eternal glory to Comrade Chou En-lai, Great Proletarian Revolutionary of the Chinese People and outstanding Communist fighter
- Adhere to the Party’s Basic Line – studying ‘On the correct handling of contradictions among the people’
- Soviet Social-Imperialism – most dangerous source of war
- Firmly grasp class struggle as the key link
- The dictatorship of the proletariat and the Great Cultural Revolution
- Mass debate brings changes in Tsinghua University
- Five years of continual backsliding – from the Soviet revisionists’ 24th Congress to their 25th Congress
- Fundamental differences between the two lines in education
- CPSU – a fascist party with the signboard ‘Party of the whole people’
- Reversing correct verdicts goes against the will of the people
- Transform schools into instruments of proletarian dictatorship
- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution continues and deepens
- From Bourgeois Democrats to Capitalist-Roaders
- Beat back the Right Deviationist attempt to reverse correct verdicts, promote industrial production
- Resolutions of the CPC Central Committee – On appointing Comrade Hua Kuo-feng Fist Vice-Chairman of CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council and On dismissing Teng Hsiao-ping from all posts both inside and outside the Party
- Counter-revolutionary political incident at Tien An Men Square
- A great victory
- Resplendent victory of the Kampuchean people
- New upsurge in criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping
- Repulsing the Right Deviationist wind in the scientific and technological circles
- Be fighters in criticising the bourgeoisie
- The Great Cultural Revolution will shine forever
- Huge increase in distribution of Works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and Chairman Mao’s Works
- Negating the revolution in literature and art aims at restoring capitalism
- The masses are the real heroes
- Teng Hsiao-ping’s total betrayal of Marxism
- Capitalist-roaders are the bourgeoisie inside the Party
- An endless flow of successors to the cause of Proletarian Revolution
- Build the Party in the course of struggle
- Eternal glory to Comrade Chu Teh, Great Proletarian Revolutionary of the Chinese People
- Successful reunification of Vietnam
- Celebrating 15th anniversary of China-Korea Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance
- Deepen the criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping in anti-quake and relief work
- Inner-Party struggle and Party development
- March forward in the struggle against Imperialism, Colonialism and Hegemonism
- China launches another man-made Earth satellite
- Proletarians are revolutionary optimists
- Working class occupying and transforming the Superstructure
- Eternal Glory to the Great Leader and great Teacher Mao Tse-tung
- The Great Leader Chairman Mao will live forever in our hearts
- Study Mao Tse-tung Thought, carry out Chairman Mao’s behests
- Mao Tse-tung Thought will always guide us forward
- Decision on the establishment of a Memorial Hall for the Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tse-tung
- Resolutely combat Soviet Modern Revisionism
- Warmly hail the great victory in smashing the scheme of the ‘gang of four’ anti-Party clique to usurp Party and state power
- Chairman Hua Kuo-feng’s message – warmly congratulating Comrade Hoxha on his re-election as First Secretary of Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labour
- People of Tachai denounce the ‘Gang of Four’
- ‘Gang of Four’s’ sinister programme for usurping Party and State power
- Second National Conference on Learning from Tachai in agriculture
- Preparatory meeting for National Conference on Learning from Taching
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.
