Beijing Review 1979 – 1991

Carry out the Four Modernisations of the Fatherland

Carry out the Four Modernisations of the Fatherland

Beijing Review 1979 – 1991

More on China …..

Comrade Mao Tse-tung was barely installed in his mausoleum before the renegades, traitors and ‘capitalist roaders’ in the Communist Party of China went on the attack. This was evident in the articles that appeared in China and which were reproduced in the various magazines produced for a foreign audience. It wasn’t just in Peking/Beijing Review that this became evident as the stance taken in China Reconstructs, China Pictorial and Chinese Literature all very soon followed suit. This was an all-round attack on the very principals and foundation of Socialism and so was carried out in all areas of society.

From the first issue of 1979 the magazine changed its name from Peking Review to Beijing Review – probably the only positive move made by the magazine since late 1976 to date.

The magazine continues to be published to this day but its aim bears no resemblance to when it was first established in the 1950s – originally under the name of People’s China. At that time its goal was to promote the construction of Socialism and to publicise these efforts to the rest of the world. From 1977 onwards its aim was to justify the re-establishment of capitalism.

However, the ‘capitalist roaders’ were never honest in their endeavours and always sought to cloak their activities in the red flag and paid mock homage to the revolutionary period of Chinese history from the Declaration of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 until just after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.

The reason for making these magazines freely available is so that those who have an interest in the construction of Socialism can see, through a sometimes gradual process, how the Revolution can be so easily stolen from the people if they are not constantly vigilant.

We have had no access to substantial issues of the magazine after the second part of 1991 – but that’s no real loss as subsequent editions teach no one anything about Socialism.

More on China …..

 

1979 – Volume 22

1 – January 5, 1979, 32 pages.

2 – January 12, 1979, 40 pages.

3 – January 19,1979, 32 pages.

4 – January 26, 1979, 32 pages.

5 – February 2, 1979, 32 pages.

6 – February 9, 1979, 32 pages.

7 – February 16, 1979, 32 pages.

8 – February 23, 1979, 32 pages.

9 – March 2, 1979, 32 pages.

10 – March 9, 1979, 32 pages.

11 – March 16, 1979, 32 pages.

12 – March 23, 1979, 32 pages.

13 – March 30, 1979, 32 pages.

14 – April 6, 1979, 32 pages.

15 – April 13, 1979, 32 pages.

16 – April 20, 1979, 32 pages.

17 – April 27, 1979, 32 pages.

18 – May 4, 1979, 32 pages.

19 – May 11, 1979, 32 pages.

20 – May 18, 1979, 32 pages.

21 – May 25, 1979, 32 pages.

22 – June 1, 1979, 32 pages.

23 – June 8, 1979, 32 pages.

24 – June 15, 1979, 32 pages.

25 – June 22, 1979, 32 pages.

26 – June 29, 1979, 32 pages.

Supplement, Subject index for issues 1-26 in 1979, 16 pages.

27 – July 6, 1979, 48 pages.

28 – July 13, 1979, 32 pages.

29 – July 20, 1979, 32 pages.

30 – July 27, 1979, 32 pages.

31 – August 3, 1979, 32 pages.

32 – August 10, 1979, 32 pages.

33 – August 17, 1979, 32 pages.

34 – August 24, 1979, 32 pages.

35 – August 31, 1979, 32 pages.

36 – September 7, 1979, 32 pages.

37 – September 14, 1979, 32 pages.

38 – September 21, 1979, 32 pages.

39 – September 28, 1979, 32 pages.

40 – October 5, 1979, 40 pages.

41 – October 12, 1979, 32 pages.

42 – October 19, 1979, 32 pages.

43 – October 26, 1979, 32 pages.

44 – November 2, 1979, 32 pages.

45 – November 9, 1979, 32 pages.

46 – November 16, 1979, 32 pages.

47 – November 23, 1979, 32 pages.

48 – November 30, 1979, 32 pages.

49 – December 7, 1979, 32 pages.

50 – December 14, 1979, 32 pages.

51 – December 21, 1979, 32 pages.

52 – December 28, 1979, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1979, 32 pages.

 

1980 – Volume 23

1 – January 7, 1980, 32 pages.

2 – January 14, 1980, 32 pages.

3 – January 21, 1980, 32 pages.

4 – January 28, 1980, 32 pages.

5 – February 4, 1980, 32 pages.

6 – February 11, 1980, 32 pages.

7 – February 18, 1980, 32 pages.

8 – February 25, 1980, 24 pages.

9 – March 3, 1980, 32 pages.

10 – March 10, 1980, 32 pages.

11 – March 17, 1980, 32 pages.

12 – March 24, 1980, 32 pages.

13 – March 31, 1980, 32 pages.

14 – April 7, 1980, 32 pages.

15 – April 14, 1980, 32 pages.

16 – April 21, 1980, 32 pages.

17 – April 28, 1980, 32 pages.

18 – May 5, 1980, 32 pages.

19 – May 12, 1980, 32 pages.

20 – May 19, 1980, 32 pages.

21 – May 26, 1980, 32 pages.

22 – June 2, 1980, 32 pages.

23 – June 9, 1980, 32 pages.

24 – June 16, 1980, 32 pages.

25 – June 23, 1980, 32 pages.

26 – June 30, 1980, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1980, 32 pages.

27 – July 7, 1980, 32 pages.

28 – July 14, 1980, 32 pages.

29 – July 21, 1980, 32 pages.

30 – July 28, 1980, 32 pages.

31 – August 4, 1980, 32 pages.

32 – August 11, 1980, 32 pages.

33 – August 18, 1980, 32 pages.

34 – August 25, 1980, 32 pages.

35 – September 1, 1980, 32 pages.

36 – September 8, 1980, 32 pages.

37 – September 15, 1980, 32 pages.

38 – September 22, 1980, 48 pages.

39 – September 29, 1980, 40 pages.

40 – October 6, 1980, 32 pages. (Announces upcoming trial of “Gang of Four” and also of surviving Lin Biao conspirators.)

41 – October 13, 1980, 32 pages.

42 – October 20, 1980, 32 pages.

43 – October 27, 1980, 32 pages.

44 – November 3, 1980, 32 pages.

45 – November 10, 1980, 32 pages.

46 – November 17, 1980, 32 pages.

47 – November 24, 1980, 32 pages.

48 – December 1, 1980, 32 pages.

49 – December 8, 1980, 32 pages.

50 – December 15, 1980, 32 pages.

51 – December 22, 1980, 32 pages.

52 – December 29, 1980, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1980, 40 pages.

 

1981 – Volume 24

1 – January 5, 1981, 32 pages.

2 – January 12, 1981, 32 pages.

3 – January 19, 1981, 32 pages.

4 – January 26, 1981, 32 pages.

5 – February 2, 1981, 32 pages.

6 – February 9, 1981, 32 pages.

7 – February 16, 1981, 24 pages.

8 – February 23, 1981, 32 pages.

9 – March 2, 1981, 32 pages.

10 – March 9, 1981, 32 pages.

11 – March 16, 1981, 32 pages.

12 – March 23, 1981, 32 pages.

13 – March 30, 1981, 32 pages.

14 – April 6, 1981, 32 pages.

15 – April 13, 1981, 32 pages.

16 – April 20, 1981, 32 pages.

17 – April 27, 1981, 32 pages.

18 – May 4, 1981, 32 pages.

19 – May 11, 1981, 32 pages.

20 – May 18, 1981, 32 pages.

21 – May 25, 1981, 32 pages.

22 – June 1, 1981, 32 pages.

23 – June 8, 1981, 32 pages.

24 – June 15, 1981, 32 pages.

25 – June 22, 1981, 32 pages.

26 – June 29, 1981, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1981, 32 pages.

27 – July 6, 1981, includes ‘On Questions of Party History‘, adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the CPC on June 27, 1981, 30 pages. (This is the notorious revisionist summation of, and slander against, the Mao years of the CCP.) 40 pages.

28 – July 13, 1981, 32 pages.

29 – July 20, 1981, 32 pages.

30 – July 27, 1981, 32 pages.

31 – August 3, 1981, 24 pages.

32 – August 10, 1981, 32 pages.

33 – August 17, 1981, 32 pages.

34 – August 24, 1981, 32 pages.

35 – August 31, 1981, 32 pages.

36 – September 7, 1981, 32 pages.

37 – September 14, 1981, 32 pages.

38 – September 21, 1981, 32 pages.

39 – September 28, 1981, 32 pages.

40 – October 5, 1981, 32 pages.

41 – October 12, 1981, 32 pages.

42 – October 19, 1981, 32 pages.

43 – October 26, 1981, 32 pages.

44 – November 2, 1981, 32 pages.

45 – November 9, 1981, 32 pages.

46 – November 16, 1981, 32 pages.

47 – November 23, 1981, 32 pages.

48 – November 30, 1981, 32 pages.

49 – December 7, 1981, 32 pages.

50 – December 14, 1981, 32 pages.

51 – December 21, 1981, 40 pages.

52 – December 28, 1981, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1981, 40 pages.

 

1982 – Volume 25

1 – January 4, 1982, 32 pages.

2 – January 11, 1982, 32 pages.

3 – January 18, 1982, 32 pages.

4 – January 25, 1982, 32 pages.

5 – February 1, 1982, 24 pages.

6 – February 8, 1982, 32 pages.

7 – February 15, 1982, 32 pages.

8 – February 22, 1982, 32 pages.

9 – March 1, 1982, 32 pages.

10 – March 8, 1982, 32 pages.

11 – March 15, 1982, 32 pages.

12 – March 22, 1982, 32 pages.

13 – March 29, 1982, 32 pages.

14 – April 5, 1982, 32 pages.

15 – April 12, 1982, 32 pages.

16 – April 19, 1982, 32 pages.

17 – April 26, 1982, 32 pages.

18 – May 3, 1982, 32 pages.

19 – May 10, 1982, 48 pages.

20 – May 17, 1982, 32 pages.

21 – May 24, 1982, 32 pages.

22 – May 31, 1982, 32 pages.

23 – June 7, 1982, 32 pages.

24 – June 14, 1982, 32 pages.

25 – June 21, 1982, 32 pages.

26 – June 28, 1982, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1982, 32 pages.

27 – July 5, 1982, 32 pages.

28 – July 12, 1982, 32 pages.

29 – July 19, 1982, 32 pages.

30 – July 26, 1982, 32 pages.

31 – August 2, 1982, 32 pages.

32 – August 9, 1982, 32 pages.

33 – August 16, 1982, 32 pages.

34 – August 23, 1982, 32 pages.

35 – August 30, 1982, 32 pages.

36 – September 6, 1982, 32 pages.

37 – September 13, 1982, 48 pages.

38 – September 20, 1982, 32 pages.

39 – September 27, 1982, 32 pages.

40 – October 4, 1982, 32 pages.

41 – October 11, 1982, 32 pages.

42 – October 18, 1982, 32 pages.

43 – October 25, 1982, 32 pages.

44 – November 1, 1982, 32 pages.

45 – November 8, 1982, 32 pages.

46 – November 15, 1982, 32 pages.

47 – November 22, 1982, 32 pages.

48 – November 29, 1982, 32 pages.

49 – December 6, 1982, 32 pages.

50 – December 13, 1982, 32 pages.

51 – December 20, 1982, 40 pages.

52 – December 27, 1982, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1982, 48 pages.

 

1983 – Volume 26

1 – January 3, 1983, 32 pages.

2 – January 10, 1983, 32 pages.

3 – January 17, 1983, 32 pages.

4 – January 24, 1983, 32 pages.

5 – January 31, 1983, 32 pages.

6 – February 7, 1983, 32 pages.

7 – February 14, 1983, 32 pages.

8 – February 21, 1983, 24 pages.

9 – February 28, 1983, 32 pages.

10 – March 7, 1983, 32 pages.

11 – March 14, 1983, 32 pages.

12 – March 21, 1983, 48 pages. Includes ‘The radiance of the great truth of Marxism lights our way forward’, by Hu Yaobang. Nominally a commemoration of the centenary of the death of Marx, but also a major statement of the revisionist line of the CCP, 16 pages.

13 – March 28, 1983, 32 pages.

14 – April 4, 1983, 32 pages.

15 – April 11, 1983, 32 pages.

16 – April 18, 1983, 40 pages.

17 – April 25, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

18 – May 2, 1983, 32 pages.

19 – May 9, 1983, 40 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 40 pages.

20 – May 16, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

21 – May 23, 1983, 48 pages, includes a 16-page supplement: ‘The 6th Five-Year Plan (1981-85) of the People’s Republic of China for Economic and Social Development’ [First part.]

22 – May 30, 1983, 48 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 48 pages.

23 – June 6, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

24 – June 13, 1983, 32 pages.

25 – June 20, 1983, 32 pages.

26 – June 27, 1983, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1983, 48 pages.

27 – July 4, 1983, 48 pages, includes a 24-page supplement: ‘Report on the work of the Government’, by Zhao Ziyang.

28 – July 11, 1983, 48 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 48 pages.

29 – July 18, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

30 – July 25, 1983, 32 pages.

31 – August 1, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

32 – August 8, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

33 – August 15, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

34 – August 22, 1983, 32 pages.

35 – August 29, 1983, 32 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 32 pages.

36 – September 5, 1983, 32 pages.

37 – September 12, 1983, 48 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 48 pages.

38 – September 19, 1983, 32 pages.

39 – September 26, 1983, 32 pages.

40 – October 3, 1983, 32 pages.

41 – October 10, 1983, 48 pages, includes 16-page supplement: ‘Regulations for the implementation of the law of the People’s Republic of China on joint ventures using Chinese and Foreign investment’ (September 20, 1983)

42 – October 17, 1983, 40 pages, includes 12-page supplement: ‘The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Party Consolidation (October 11, 1983). [I.e., on ‘rectifying’ or purging any remaining Party members with Maoist revolutionary sympathies.]

43 – October 24, 1983, 32 pages.

44 – October 31, 1983, 32 pages.

45 – November 7, 1983, 32 pages.

46 – November 14, 1983, 32 pages.

47 – November 21, 1983, 32 pages.

48 – November 28, 1983, 32 pages.

49 – December 5, 1983, 32 pages.

50 – December 12, 1983, 32 pages.

51 – December 19, 1983, 32 pages.

52 – December 26, 1983, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1983, 48 pages.

 

1984 – Volume 27

1 – January 2, 1984, 36 pages.

2 – January 9, 1984, 36 pages.

3 – January 16, 1984, 36 pages.

4 – January 23, 1984, 36 pages.

5-6 – January 30, 1984, 44 pages.

7 – February 13, 1984, 36 pages.

8 – February 20, 1984, 36 pages.

9 – February 27, 1984, 36 pages.

10 – March 5, 1984, 36 pages.

11 – March 12, 1984, 36 pages.

12 – March 19, 1984, 36 pages.

13 – March 26, 1984, 36 pages.

14 – April 2, 1984, 36 pages.

15 – April 9, 1984, 44 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China’ (March 12, 1984), 8 pages.

16 – April 16, 1984, 40 pages.

17 – April 23, 1984, 36 pages.

18 – April 30, 1984, 36 pages.

19 – May 7, 1984, 36 pages.

20 – May 14, 1984, 44 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Communique on fulfilment of China’s 1983 National Economic Plan’, by the State Statistical Bureau, 12 pages.

21 – May 21, 1984, 36 pages.

22 – May 28, 1984, 36 pages.

23 – June 4, 1984, 36 pages.

24 – June 11, 1984, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Report on the work of the Government’, by Zhao Ziyang, at the 2nd Session of the Sixth National People’s Congress, May 15, 1984, 16 pages.

25 – June 18, 1984, 44 pages, includes two internal supplements: ‘Independent and peaceful foreign policy’ (3 pages) and ‘Expanding economic exchanges and promoting common prosperity’ (4 pages) Relating to the policy of ‘opening up’ China to foreign investment.

26 – June 25, 1984, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1984,

27 – July 2, 1984, 36 pages.

28 – July 9, 1984, 40 pages.

29 – July 16, 1984, 36 pages includes the article ‘Investment environment seen as favourable’, by Gu Ming, discussing the political and legal changes from 1979 on which opened up China to foreign investment.

30 – July 23, 1984, 36 pages.

31 – July 30, 1984, 36 pages.

32 – August 6, 1984, 36 pages.

33 – August 13, 1984, 36 pages.

34 – August 20 1984, 28 pages.

35 – August 27 1984, 52 pages includes the 20-page article ‘China’s industry on the upswing’, by Lu Dong, which includes charts and statistics admitting that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was overall actually a period of rapid economic growth.

36 – September 3, 1984, 36 pages.

37 – September 10, 1984, 36 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 36 pages.

38 – September 17, 1984, 36 pages.

39 – September 24, 1984, 36 pages.

40 – October 1, 1984, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Sino-British joint declaration on the question of Hong Kong’, 20 pages.

41 – October 8, 1984, 40 pages.

42 – October 15, 1984, 36 pages.

43 – October 22, 1984, 36 pages.

44 – October 29, 1984, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on reform of the economic structure’, adopted by the 12th Central Committee of the CCP at its Third Plenary Session on October 20, 1984, 16 pages.

45 – November 5, 1984, 36 pages.

46 – November 12, 1984, 36 pages.

47 – November 19, 1984, 36 pages.

48 – November 26, 1984, 36 pages.

49 – December 3, 1984, 36 pages.

50 – December 10, 1984, 36 pages.

51 – December 17, 1984, 36 pages.

52 – December 24, 1984, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1984, 52 pages.

 

1985 – Volume 28

1 – January 7, 1985, 48 pages.

2 – January 14, 1985, 36 pages.

3 – January 21, 1985, 36 pages.

4 – January 28, 1985, 36 pages.

5 – February 4, 1985, 36 pages.

6 – February 11, 1985, 36 pages.

7-8 – February 18, 1985, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Regulations on implementing the Patent Law of the PRC’, 14 pages.

9 – March 4, 1985, 40 pages.

10 – March 11, 1985, 36 pages.

11 – March 18, 1985, 36 pages.

12 – March 25, 1985, 44 pages.

13 – April 1, 1985, 36 pages.

14 – April 1, 1985, 36 pages.

15 – April 8, 1985, 36 pages.

16 – April 15, 1985, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘The current economic situation and the reform of the economic structure’, by Zhao Ziyang, 16 pages.

17 – April 22, 1985, 44 pages, includes two internal supplements: ‘Report on the execution of the State Budget for 1984 and on the Draft State Budget for 1985’ (3 pages), and ‘Report on the Draft 1985 Plan for National Economic and Social Development’ (5 pages).

18 – May 6, 1985, 36 pages.

19 – May 13, 1985, 36 pages.

20 – May 20, 1985, 36 pages.

21 – May 27, 1985, 36 pages.

22 – June 3, 1985, 40 pages.

23 – June 10, 1985, 36 pages. [Some water damage making a few words illegible.]

24 – June 17, 1985, 36 pages.

25 – June 24, 1985, 36 pages.

26 – July 1, 1985, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1985, 44 pages.

27 – July 8, 1985, 52 pages, includes two internal supplements: ‘Foreign economic contract law of the PRC’ (4 pages), and ‘The accounting regulations of the PRC for the joint ventures using Chinese and foreign Investment’ (12 pages).

28 – July 15, 1985, 36 pages.

29 – July 22, 1985, 36 pages.

30 – July 29, 1985, 36 pages.

31 – August 5, 1985, 32 pages.

32 – August 12, 1985, 36 pages.

33 – August 19, 1985, 36 pages.

34 – August 26, 1985, 40 pages.

35 – September 2, 1985, 36 pages.

36 – September 9, 1985, 36 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘China pledges to maintain world peace’, by Peng Zhen, 8 pages.

37 – September 16, 1985, 36 pages.

38 – September 23, 1985, 36 pages.

39 – September 30, 1985, 36 pages.

40 – October 7, 1985, 44 pages, includes two internal supplements: ‘Explanation of the Proposal for the Seventh Five-Year Plan’, by Zhao Ziyang (5 pages) and ‘Proposal of the CC of the CCP for the Seventh Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development’ (19 pages).

41 – October 14, 1985, 36 pages.

42 – October 21, 1985, 36 pages.

43 – October 28, 1985, 36 pages.

44 – November 4, 1985, 36 pages.

45 – November 11, 1985, 36 pages.

46 – November 18, 1985, 36 pages.

47 – November 25, 1985, 36 pages.

48 – December 2, 1985, 36 pages.

49 – December 9, 1985, 36 pages.

50 – December 16, 1985, 36 pages.

51 – December 23, 1985, 36 pages.

52 – December 30, 1985, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1985, 44 pages.

 

1986 – Volume 29

1 – January 6, 1986, 52 pages.

2 – January 13, 1986, 40 pages.

3 – January 20, 1986, 36 pages.

4 – January 27, 1986, 36 pages.

5 – February 3, 1986, 36 pages.

6-7 – February 10, 1986, 52 pages.

8 – February 24, 1986, 40 pages.

9 – March 3, 1986, 36 pages.

10 – March 10, 1986, 36 pages.

11 – March 17, 1986, 36 pages.

12 – March 24, 1986, 44 pages.

13 – March 31, 1986, 40 pages.

14 – April 7, 1986, 36 pages.

15 – April 14, 1986, 36 pages.

16 – April 21, 1986, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Report on the Seventh Five-Year Plan’, by Premier Zhao Ziyang, 20 pages.

17 – April 28, 1986, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘The Seventh Five-Year Plan of the PRC for Economic and Social Development (1986-1990): Excerpts’, 24 pages.

18 – May 5, 1986, 40 pages.

19 – May 12, 1986, 36 pages.

20 – May 19, 1986, 44 pages.

21 – May 26, 1986, 36 pages.

22 – June 2, 1986, 36 pages.

23 – June 9, 1986, 36 pages.

24 – June 16, 1986, 40 pages.

25 – June 23, 1986, 36 pages.

26 – June 30, 1986, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1986, 44 pages.

27 – July 7, 1986, 36 pages.

28 – July 14, 1986, 40 pages.

29 – July 21, 1986, 36 pages.

30 – July 28, 1986, 32 pages.

31 – August 4, 1986, 36 pages.

32 – August 11, 1986, 36 pages.

33 – August 18, 1986, 36 pages.

34 – August 25, 1986, 32 pages.

35 – September 1, 1986, 36 pages.

36 – September 8, 1986, 36 pages.

37 – September 15, 1986, 36 pages.

38 – September 22, 1986, 36 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 36 pages.

39 – September 29, 1986, 40 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 40 pages.

40 – October 6, 1986, 44 pages. Includes internal supplement: ‘Resolution of the CC of the CPC on the guiding principles of building a Socialist society with an advanced culture and ideology’, adopted by the 6th Plenary Session of the 12th CC on Sept. 28, 1986, 8 pages.

41 – October 13, 1986, 36 pages.

42 – October 20, 1986, 36 pages. Includes the article: ‘China improves climate for foreign investment’ (p. 5).

43 – October 27, 1986, 36 pages.

44 – November 3, 1986, 40 pages.

45 – November 10, 1986, 36 pages.

46 – November 17, 1986, 36 pages.

47 – November 24, 1986, 36 pages.

48 – December 1, 1986, 36 pages. Includes the article: ‘A probe into theories backing China’s reform’, an academic discussion designed to further camouflage and ‘justify’ the transition back to capitalism (pp. 14-15).

49 – December 8, 1986, 36 pages. Includes the article: ‘Socialist features re-examined’, by Zhao Yao, reinterpreting socialism away from the Maoist understanding of it as a transition period between capitalism and communism (pp. 14-15).

50 – December 15, 1986, 36 pages.

51 – December 22, 1986, 36 pages.

52 – December 29, 1986, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1986, 44 pages.

 

1987 – Volume 30

1 – January 5, 1987, 40 pages.

2 – January 12, 1987, 36 pages.

North American edition, issue 2, 44 pages. (Includes 8 pages of material especially for North America.)

3 – January 19, 1987, 36 pages.

4 – January 26, 1987, 36 pages.

5-6 – February 9, 1987, 44 pages.

7 – February 16, 1987, 36 pages.

8 – February 23, 1987, 36 pages.

9 – March 2, 1987, 40 pages, includes: ‘Communique on the Statistics of 1986 Economic and Social Development’ (7 p.)

10 – March 9, 1987, 36 pages.

11 – March 16, 1987, 36 pages.

12 – March 23, 1987, 36 pages.

13 – March 30, 1987, 44 pages.

14 – April 6, 1987, 44 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macao’, 12 pages.

15 – April 13, 1987, 36 pages.

16 – April 20, 1987, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Report on the work of the Government’, by Premier Zhao Ziyang, 20 pages.

17 – April 27, 1987, 48 pages, includes internal supplements: ‘Report on the Draft 1987 Plan for National Economic and Social Development (Excerpts)’, by Song Ping, 4 pages; and ‘Report on the implementation of the State Budget for 1986 and the Draft State Budget for 1987 (Excerpts)’, by Wang Bingqian, 4 pages.

18 – May 4, 1987, 40 pages.

19 – May 11, 1987, 36 pages.

20 – May 18, 1987, 36 pages.

21 – May 25, 1987, 36 pages.

22 – June 1, 1987, 36 pages.

23 – June 8, 1987, 36 pages.

24 – June 15, 1987, 36 pages.

25 – June 22, 1987, 36 pages.

26 – June 29, 1987, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1987, 44 pages.

27 – July 6, 1987, 36 pages.

28 – July 13, 1987, 36 pages.

29 – July 20, 1987, 36 pages.

30 – July 27, 1987, 36 pages.

31 – August 3, 1987, 36 pages.

32 – August 10, 1987, 36 pages.

33 – August 17, 1987, 36 pages.

34 – August 24, 1987, 28 pages.

35 – August 31, 1987, 36 pages.

36 – September 7, 1987, 36 pages.

37 – September 14, 1987, 36 pages.

38 – September 21, 1987, 36 pages.

39 – September 28, 1987, 36 pages.

40 – October 5, 1987, 36 pages.

41 – October 12, 1987, 36 pages.

42 – October 19, 1987, 36 pages.

43 – October 26-November 1, 1987, 36 pages.

44 – November 2-8, 1987, 36 pages.

45 – November 9-15, 1987, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Advance along the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’, report presented by Zhao Ziyang at the 13th National Congress of the CCP on October 25, 1978, 27 pages.

46 – November 16-22, 1987, 44 pages.

47 – November 23-29, 1987, 40 pages.

48 – November 30-December 6, 1987, 36 pages.

49 – December 7-13, 1987, 36 pages.

50 – December 14-20, 1987, 36 pages.

51 – December 21-27, 1987, 40 pages.

52 – December 28, 1987-January 3, 1988, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1987, 52 pages.

 

1988 – Volume 31

1 – January 4-10, 1988, 36 pages.

2 – January 11-17, 1988, 36 pages.

3 – January 18-24, 1988, 36 pages.

4 – January 25-31, 1988, 36 pages.

5 – February 1-7, 1988, 36 pages.

6 – February 8-14, 1988, 36 pages.

7-8 – February 15-28, 1988, 40 pages.

9 – February 29-March 6, 1988, 36 pages.

10 – March 7-13, 1988, 44 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Statistics for 1987 Socio-Economic Development’, 8 pages.

11 – March 14-20, 1988, 40 pages.

12 – March 21-27, 1988, 40 pages.

13 – March 28-April 3, 1988, 36 pages.

14 – April 4-10, 1988, 40 pages.

15 – April 11-17, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

16 – April 18-24, 1988, 40 pages. Missing front and back covers.

17 – April 25-May 1, 1988, 50 pages. Missing back cover.

18 – May 2-8, 1988, 40 pages.

19 – May 9-15, 1988, 52 pages.

20 – May 16-22, 1988, 42 pages. Missing back cover. Includes internal supplement: ‘Report on the Draft 1988 Plan for National Economic and Social Development.

21 – May 23-29, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

22 – May 30-June 5, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

23 – June 6-12, 1988, 32 pages. Missing both front and back covers.

24 – June 13-19, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

25 – June 20-26, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover. Includes: ‘Law of the PRC on Chinese-Foreign Contractual Joint Ventures’, 4 pages.

26 – June 27-July 3, 1988, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1988, 42 pages. Missing back cover.

27 – July 4-10, 1988, 34 pages. Missing front cover.

28 – July 11-17, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

29 – July 18-24, 1988, 40 pages.

30 – July 25-31, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

31 – August 1-7, 1988, 26 pages. Missing back cover.

32 – August 8-14, 1988, 28 pages.

33 – August 15-21, 1988, 36 pages.

34 – August 22-28, 1988, 36 pages.

35 – August 29-September 4, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

36 – September 5-11, 1988, 36 pages.

37 – September 12-18, 1988, 34 pages. Missing back cover.

38 – September 19-25, 1988, 35 pages. Missing back cover.

39 – September 26-October 2, 1988, 36 pages. Back cover photo upside down.

40 – October 3-9, 1988, 36 pages.

41 – October 10-16, 1988, 36 pages.

42 – October 17-23, 1988, 36 pages.

43 – October 24-30, 1988, 36 pages.

44 – October 31-November 6, 1988, 36 pages.

45 – November 7-13, 1988, 36 pages.

46 – November 14-20, 1988, 44 pages , includes articles: ‘Re-understanding Capitalism’ and ‘The privatization of urban housing’ as well as the internal supplement: ‘Report to the Third Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee’, by Zhao Ziyang, 8 pages.

47 – November 21-27, 1988, 36 pages.

48 – November 28-December 4, 1988, 36 pages.

49 – December 5-11, 1988, 36 pages.

50 – December 12-18, 1988, 36 pages.

51 – December 19-25, 1988, 36 pages, includes: ‘The reform of China’s labour system’, about the mass lay-offs from state-owned enterprises, etc.

52 – December 26, 1988 – January 1, 1989, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1988, 44 pages.

 

1989 – Volume 32

1 – January 2-8, 1989, 36 pages.

2 – January 9-15, 1989, 36 pages.

3 – January 16-22, 1989, 36 pages.

4 – January 23-29, 1989, 36 pages.

5 – January 30-February 5, 1989, 36 pages.

6 – February 6-12, 1989, 36 pages.

7-8 – February 13-26, 1989, 52 pages.

9 – February 27-March 5, 1989, 36 pages.

10 – March 6-12, 1989, 52 pages, includes 4 internal supplements (16 pages): ‘Statistics for 1988 Socio-Economic Development’; ‘Interim regulations on private enterprises of the People’s Republic of China’; and 2 others.

11 – March 13-19, 1989, 52 pages, includes internal supplement: ‘Basic Law of HKSAR,PRC (Draft)’ [Hong Kong], 16 pages.

12 – March 20-26, 1989, 36 pages.

13 – March 27-April 2, 1989, 36 pages.

14 – April 3-9, 1989, 36 pages.

15 – April 10-16, 1989, 36 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 36 pages.

16 – April 17-23, 1989, 52 pages.

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17 – April 24-30, 1989, 36 pages.

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18 – April 24-30, 1989, The official government condemnations of the world-famous student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square begin in this issue. 52 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 52 pages.

19 – May 8-14, 1989, 36 pages.

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20 – May 15-21, 1989, 36 pages.

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21 – May 22-28, 1989, 36 pages.

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22 – May 29-June 4, 1989, 40 pages.

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23 – June 5-11, 1989, 36 pages.

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24-25 – June 12-25, 1989, 36 pages.

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26 – June 26-July 2, 1989, 36 pages.

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27 – July 3-9, 1989, 36 pages.

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28 – July 10-16, 1989, 36 pages.

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29 – July 17-23, 1989, 52 pages.

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30 – July 24-30, 1989, 40 pages.

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31 – July 31-August 6, 1989, 40 pages.

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32 – August 7-13, 1989, 36 pages.

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33 – August 14-20, 1989, 36 pages.

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34 – August 21-27, 1989, 28 pages.

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35 – August 28-September 3, 1989, 36 pages.

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36 – September 4-10, 1989, 36 pages, includes the absurd 1-page article ‘Why China will not practise privatization”, by Jin Qi, attempting to discount both the massive privatization occurring during this period and also the state capitalist relations of production of even that part of industry which was not being privatized.

37 – September 11-17, 1989, 36 pages.

38 – September 18-24, 1989, 36 pages.

39 – September 25-October 1, 1989, 36 pages.

40 – October 2-8, 1989, 56 pages. Includes a lot of statistical information.

41 – October 9-15, 1989, 52 pages.

42 – October 16-22, 1989, 36 pages.

43 – October 23-29, 1989, 36 pages.

Second copy – clearer but a much bigger file, 36 pages.

44 – October 30-November 5, 1989, 36 pages, includes the article: ‘China announces foreign debts for the first time’ (p. 29).

45 – November 6-12, 1989, 36 pages.

46 – November 13-19, 1989, 36 pages.

47 – November 20-26, 1989, 56 pages.

48 – November 27-December 3, 1989, 36 pages.

49 – December 4-10, 1989, 36 pages.

50 – December 11-17, 1989, 36 pages.

51 – December 18-24, 1989, 36 pages.

52 – December 25-31, 1989, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1989, 52 pages.

 

1990 – Volume 33

1 – January 1-7, 1990, 36 pages.

2 – January 8-14, 1990, 36 pages.

3 – January 15-21, 1990, 36 pages.

4 – January 22-28, 1990, 36 pages.

5-6 – January 29-February 11, 1990, 40 pages.

7 – February 12-18, 1990, 52 pages, includes the internal supplement: ‘Decision on further improving the economic environment, straightening out the economic order and deepening the reforms’, 16 pages.

8 – February 19-25, 1990, 36 pages.

9 – February 26-March 4, 1990, 52 pages, includes the internal supplement: ‘Statistics for China’s National Socio-Economic Development in 1989’, 8 pages.

10 – March 5-11, 1990, 36 pages.

11 – March 12-18, 1990, 36 pages.

12 – March 19-25, 1990, 36 pages.

13 – March 26-April 1, 1990, 36 pages.

14 – April 2-8, 1990, 36 pages.

15 – April 9-15, 1990, 36 pages.

16 – April 16-22, 1990, 52 pages, includes the internal supplement: ‘Continue to work for stable political, economic and social development in China – report on the work of the Government’, by Premier Li Peng, 24 pages.

17 – April 23-29, 1990, 52 pages, includes the internal supplements: ‘Report on implementation of the 1989 Plan for National Development and the Draft 1990 Plan’, by Zou Jiahua, 8 pages; and ‘Report on the implementation of the State Budget for 1989 and on the Draft State Budget for 1990’, by Wang Bingqian, 6 pages.

18 – April 30-May 6, 1990, 52 pages, includes the internal supplement: ‘The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China’, and related documents, 24 pages.

19 – May 7-13, 1990, 36 pages.

20 – May 14-20, 1990, 36 pages.

21 – May 21-27, 1990, 36 pages.

22 – May 28-June 3, 1990, 48 pages, includes a 12-page special section on the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone as an ‘ideal place for foreign investment’.

23 – June 4-10, 1990, 36 pages.

24 – June 11-17, 1990, 36 pages.

25 – June 18-24, 1990, 36 pages.

26 – June 25-July 1, 1990, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1990, 52 pages.

27 – July 2-8, 1990, 36 pages.

28 – July 9-15, 1990, 36 pages.

29 – July 16-22, 1990, 36 pages.

30 – July 23-29, 1990, 40 pages.

31 – July 30-August 5, 1990, 36 pages.

32 – August 6-12, 1990, 28 pages.

33 – August 13-19, 1990, 36 pages.

Second copy , 36 pages.

34 – August 20-26, 1990, 44 pages.

35 – August 27-September 2, 1990, 36 pages.

36 – September 3-9, 1990, 36 pages.

37 – September 10-16, 1990, 36 pages.

38 – September 17-23, 1990, 36 pages.

39 – September 24-30, 1990, 36 pages.

40 – October 1-7, 1990, 36 pages.

41 – October 8-14, 1990, 36 pages.

42 – October 15-21, 1990, 40 pages.

43 – October 22-28, 1990, 36 pages.

44 – October 29-November 4, 1990, 36 pages.

45 – November 5-11, 1990, 36 pages.

46 – November 12-18, 1990, 36 pages.

47 – November 19-25, 1990, 36 pages.

48 – November 26-December 2, 1990, 36 pages.

49 – December 3-9, 1990, 36 pages.

50 – December 10-16, 1990, 36 pages.

51 – December 17-23, 1990, 40 pages.

52 – December 24-30, 1990, includes an index for issues 27-52 in 1990, 52 pages.

 

1991 – Volume 34

1 – January 7-13, 1991, 36 pages, includes: ‘Communique of the 7th Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee of the CCP’, 3 pages.

2 – January 14-20, 1991, 36 pages, includes: ‘China opens first Securities Exchange’ [stock market], 2 pages.

3 – January 21-27, 1991, 36 pages.

4 – January 28-February 3, 1991, 36 pages.

5 – February 4-10, 1991, 36 pages.

6 – February 11-17, 1991, 36 pages.

7-8 – February 18-March 3, 1991, 56 pages.

9 – March 4-10, 1991, 36 pages.

10 – March 11-17, 1991, 52 pages, includes: ‘Economic restructuring in the 1990s’, 2 pages; and ‘Statistical Communique of the State Statistical Bureau…’, 8 pages.

11 – March 18-24, 1991, 36 pages.

12 – March 25-31, 1991, 36 pages.

13 – April 1-7, 1991, 36 pages.

14 – April 8-14, 1991, 36 pages, includes: ‘Development of China’s Special Economic Zones’, 7 pages.

15 – April 15-21, 1991, 52 pages includes article: ‘China to enact its Copyright Law’, 1 page; and ‘Report on the Outline of the Ten-Year Programme and of the Eighth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development’, by Premier Li Peng, 24 pages.

16 – April 22-28, 1991, 52 pages, includes: ‘Report on the implementation of the 1990 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Draft 1991 Plan’, by Zou Jiahua, 32 pages; and a report on the 1990 & 1991 state budgets.

17 – April 29-May 5, 1991, 36 pages.

18 – May 6-12, 1991, 36 pages, includes short article: ‘China raises food prices’.

19 – May 13-19, 1991, 36 pages.

20 – May 20-26, 1991, 40 pages.

21 – May 27-June 2, 1991, 36 pages.

22 – June 3-9, 1991, 36 pages.

23 – June 10-16, 1991, 40 pages.

24 – June 17-23, 1991, 36 pages.

25 – June 24-30, 1991, 36 pages.

26 – July 1-7, 1991, includes an index for issues 1-26 in 1991, 52 pages.

27 – July 8-14, 1991, 52 pages, includes: ‘Building Socialism the Chinese Way’”, speech by Jiang Zemin, July 1, 1991, 18 pages.

28 – July 15-21, 1991, 36 pages, includes: ‘How has the CPC developed Marxism?’, by Hu Qiaomu, 6 pages. [Item 8 on this list consists of the capitalist-road methods of economic ‘reforms’ and ‘opening up’; item 9 is the ‘socialist commodity economy’ (i.e. so-called ‘market socialism’]

29 – July 22-28, 1991, 36 pages.

30 – July 29-August 4, 1991, 52 pages.

31 – August 5-11, 1991, 36 pages.

32 – August 12-18, 1991, 36 pages.

33 – August 19-25, 1991, 36 pages.

34 – August 26-September 1, 1991, 36 pages.

35 – September 2-8, 1991, 36 pages.

More on China …..

Capitalist China – the reality post-Mao

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View of the world – 2023

Ukraine – what you were’nt told – 2022

Ukraine – what you’re not told – 2023

Capitalist China – the reality post-Mao

On this page you will be able to read a series of articles and analyses of the situation as it developed in the People’s Republic of China very soon after the death of Comrade Mao in 1976.

In recent years organisations have mushroomed which seek to claim that China still follows the ‘socialist road’. The information included here seeks to challenge such a proposition.

The construction of socialism is not only about increasing the material wealth of a population. What many (but not all) of the population may have gained under the so-called ‘modernisations’ they have lost in their real control of the society, as they had between 1949 and 1976.

The overwhelming number of the documents here have been provided by the comrades at bannedthought. We thank them for their effort.

Communist Party of China

19th Party Congress: 2017

Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party, adopted at the 19th Party Congress, October 24, 2017, 28 pages.

17th Party Congress: 2007

Resolution of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Amended Constitution of the CPC, adopted October 21, 2007, 8 pages.

Resolution of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Report of its 16th Central Committee, adopted October 21, 2007, 9 pages.

Resolution of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, adopted October 21, 2007, 3 pages.

Speech at a ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China, July 1, 2021, Xi Jinping, 13 pages.

Chinese Government and Official Functions

Report on the work of the Government, 4th Session of the 13th National People’s Congress, Premier Li Keqiang, March 2021, 128 pages.

Speech at the Centenary of the Revolution of 1911, Liu Jun, Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, October 9, 2011, 6 pages.

Speech at the Centenary of the Revolution of 1911, by Zhou Tienong, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, October 9, 2011, 6 pages.

China’s Economy

China’s Socialist Economy, Xue Muqiao, China Knowledge Series, Beijing, New World Press, 1981, 340 pages.

Almanac of China’s economy, 1981, with economic statistics for 1949-1980, compiled by the Economic Research Centre, The State Council of the People’s Republic of China and the State Statistical Bureaux, editor in chief Xue Muqiao, Eurasia Press, Hong Kong, 1982, 1144 pages.

China’s Socialist Economy, Xue Muqiao, China Knowledge Series, Beijing, New World Press, 1986 revised edition, 332 pages.

New strategy for China’s economy, Ma Hong, China Studies Series, Beijing, New World Press, 1983, 176 pages.

Smashing the Communal Pot – formulation and development of China’s rural responsibility system, Wang Guichen, Zhou Qiren and others, China Studies Series, Beijing, New World Press, 1985, 208 pages.

Chinese reforms, inflation and the allocation of investment in a Socialist Economy, by Oktay Yenal, World Bank Internal Discussion Paper, Asia Regional Series, Report No. IDP 52, October 1989, 48 pages.

The facts and China’s position on China-US trade friction, ‘White Paper’ by the Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, September 25, 2018, in reaction to the trade war started by the Trump Administration, 72 pages.

Ten Crises: the political economy of China’s development 1949-2020, Wen Tiejun, Open Access, 2021, 539 pages. An unconventional book which ignores or blurs the fundamental distinction between the Maoist socialist period and the capitalist-imperialist period in China which developed after Mao’s death. Points of interest; but of course it is deeply and fundamentally bourgeois in outlook.

The Great Reversal – the privatization of China, 1978-1989, William Hinton, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1990, 191 pages.

China’s Military

Military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China, 2020, Annual Report of the U.S. Secretary of Defense to Congress, 200 pages.

Understanding Chinese nuclear thinking, ed. by Li Bin and Tong Zhao, Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment, 2016, 286 pages. Expressing the point of view of the current Chinese political and military authorities as they wish it to be understood in the West.

Chinese lessons from other peoples’ wars, ed. by Andrew Scobell, David Lai and Roy Kamphausen, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, November 2011, 339 pages.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy: A Modern Navy with Chinese Characteristics, by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, August 2009, 51 pages.

Suppression of News and Ideas in China

In support of young left-wing activists detained and wanted for organizing a reading group on November 15, 2017, the Borderless Movement, March 2018, 5 pages.

Internet censorship and China’s new Online Publication Law, Dezan Shira and Associates, May 17, 2016, 3 pages.

Although this article focuses on the ramifications of this new censorship law for foreign corporations operating in China, it also has information of a more general character. It notes for example that in recent years under the regime of Xi Jinping China has expanded the fraction of the web sites in the world which it blocks from 14% to 25%. It says:

‘The [new Chinese Internet censorship] law stipulates that an internet publication cannot include any content that opposes the principles of the constitution, threatens national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity or security, divulges state secrets, damages the reputation or interests of the state, incites ethnic hostility or discrimination, endangers social morals or ethnic cultural traditions, advocates heresy or feudal superstition, disseminates rumours, disturbs social order and stability, disseminates obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, or incites crime or insults others or infringes on their legal rights and interests.’ [In other words, the Chinese rulers openly state that they will block anything and everything that they disapprove of, and that there will be no such thing as free speech on the Internet in China.]

China’s Xi calls for cooperation over Internet Regulation, AP, December 16, 2015, 2 pages. Quotes one commentator as saying: ‘Under the guise of sovereignty and security, the Chinese authorities are trying to rewrite the rules of the Internet so censorship and surveillance become the norm everywhere.’

China is leading jailer of journalists, Group Says, New York Times, December 15, 2015, 1 page.

China’s defiance stirs fears for missing dissident, New York Times, February 3, 2010, 3 pages. About the arrest and disappearance of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.

Google, citing attack, threatens to exit China, New York Times, January 13, 2010, 3 pages.

Furious Google throws down gauntlet to China over censorship, Ars Technica, January 12, 2010, 4 pages.

Trial in China signals new limits on dissent, New York Times, December 24, 2009, 3 pages. About the trial of Liu Xiaobo, an advocate of bourgeois democracy.

Film makers barred from Chinese festival, New York Times, September 2, 2009.

Chinese Capitalist-Imperialism

Chinese Society Research — Phase I, a volume first published in Chinese in December 2020. Prepared by contemporary Chinese Maoists and presenting their extensive investigations into the current organization of capitalist production in China, industrial zones, factory conditions, class relations, wages and benefits, the attitudes of the workers and of management, the living conditions of the workers, etc. Includes investigations of a number of specific workplaces, interviews with some individuals, and a discussion of both the traditional and newly emerging petty bourgeois strata. English Version of this Book, translated by Nick G., Chairperson of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), August 2022, 173 pages.

Poor households mired in the cycle of poverty and illness, author unspecified, January 2020, 21 pages.

China is turning Ethiopia into a giant fast-fashion factory, Bill Donahue, Bloomberg Businessweek, Asia Edition, March 5, 2018, 12 pages. About the export of Chinese capital to Ethiopia and the effects it is having there.

Capital accumulation, private property and rising inequality in China, 1978-2015, a scholarly study by Thomas Piketty, Li Yang, and Gabriel Zucman, October 7, 2018, 41 pages.

Is China an Imperialist Country?, by N.B. Turner, et al. An extensive essay on the growth and development of China as a major contending imperialist power, together with discussion of the nature and changes within the current world imperialist system and of the contradictions within it, www.red-path.net, March 2014, 129 pages.

The Political Economy of Chinese State Capitalism, Li Xing and Timothy M. Shaw, JCIR 1:1 2013, 26 pages.

Billions in hidden riches for family of Chinese Leader [Wen Jiabao], David Barboza, New York Times, October 25, 2012, 12 pages.

‘Princelings’ in China use family ties to gain riches, New York Times, May 17, 2012, 5 pages.

May Day means pay day for university student swindlers in Lanzhou, China, Jerry Leonard and Xie Yingjun, May 4, 2012, 7 pages. A telling little personal story illustrating how the once very militant workers’ holiday in Mao’s China has changed into just a vacation period, and one in which you might very well get swindled by the new class of ‘entrepreneurs’.

The Chinese Communist Party’s Capitalist Elite, an article about the huge number of members of the National People’s Congress who are capitalist billionaires, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 1, 2012, 2 pages.

The rise of China and its implications, Fred Engst, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing. This is the edited and approved version of this important essay, parts of which were presented at the ILPS 4th International Assembly in the Philippines on July 9, 2011. 15 pages.

China’s ‘State Capitalism’ sparks a global backlash, Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2010, 7 pages.

Chinese military seeks to extend its naval power, New York Times, April 23, 2010, 5 pages.

China emerges as a major exporter of capital, John Chan, World Socialist Web Site, May 19, 2009, 3 pages. [Note: While this article is from a Trotskyist publication, it seems accurate and quite useful to us.]

China-India maritime rivalry, Cdr. Gurpreet S. Khurana, Indian Defence Review, October-December 2009, 8 pages.

The realities of China today, Martin Hart-Lansberg, Against the Current, number 137, November-December 2008, 15 pages. Though the author is not a Maoist, and makes at least one very unsupported and unjustified criticism of Maoist economic policies, overall this article strongly debunks the notions of some people on the ‘left’ today that China is still a socialist country, or that it at least is supposedly advancing the welfare of the Chinese masses. It shows that nothing could be further from the truth!

China’s emerging role in the international financial system, speech by Chen Yuan, Governor, China Development Bank, Shanghai, November 10, 2008, 9 pages.

China offers India help to defeat Maoists, UPI Press report, October 27, 2005, 1 page.

Mass Struggles in China

Big events of 2020 for the labourers: The oppression by the bourgeoisie and the resistance of the proletariat, a revolutionary perspective, prepared by ‘Gonghao 51’, 21 pages. Includes an internal link to the original Chinese language version.

Workers, police clash in China’s Yanan; 100 Injured, Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy (via BBC), May 7, 2010, 2 pages.

They’re not going to take it: China’s women, facing pervasive discrimination, decide to fight for their rights, Newsweek, August 1, 2009, 3 pages.

Chinese workers beat manager to death; farmers block highway, Asia News, July 27, 2009.

Pro-Maoist Sentiment in Contemporary China

(N.B. Radio Free Asia is fully funded by the US Government. That should be taken into account when reading any articles they publish but some are included here for historical interest. Mind you, few of the other mainstream media sources are any better.)

History project of the Republic: the history and logic of revolution and restoration, by an anonymous group of Chinese Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, probably originally written in the 2016-2019 time frame. English translation, by Nick G., Chairperson of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), August 2022, 355 pages.

‘This book, banned in China, traces the history of all the major contradictions within the Communist Party of China both during and after the period of Mao Zedong’s leadership. It explains why the genuine Left was unable to carry on Chairman Mao’s behest to continue the revolution under the conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and then examines the contradictions between the different groupings of capitalist-roaders who seized power after Mao’s death; the struggle between them, on the one hand, and their collusion, on the other, to strip the workers and peasants of their rights and to suppress them under a bourgeois state machine of inherent violence.’ From the translator’s introduction.

Democratic Socialism is Capitalism: A criticism of Xie Tao’s ‘Only Democratic Socialism can save China’, Wu Bing, 82 pages. [The original Chinese version, which appeared years ago on the maoflag.net website, is no longer available, and was written in March 2007. This is a 2022 English translation by Nick G., Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist). Nick notes that though this article refers to ‘democratic socialism’, the issue is really about what is more commonly called ‘social-democracy’, which of course is not really socialism at all. ‘Wu Bing’ is a pseudonym meaning ‘armed soldier’, and the person criticized, Xie Tao, is a reactionary academic. Xie advocated for a freer development of capitalism in China under the cloak of what he called ‘democratic socialism’.

China’s Maoists mark death of Great Helmsman with tributes, street events, from the website of the so-called Radio Free Asia, September 9, 2021, 2 pages.

‘Who are our enemies?’ China’s bitter youths embrace Mao, Li Yuan, New York Times, July 8, 2021, 5 pages.

China’s ruling party cancels Maoist gatherings on Cultural Revolution anniversary, from the website of Radio Free Asia, May 17, 2021, 3 pages.

Anti-Capitalist tirades go viral in China: Marxist rhetoric is gaining currency among young, overworked netizens, The Economist, February 6, 2021, 3 pages.

New Years Greeting: the return of Marxism and the opening of a New Age, ‘Zuo Yi 23’, circa January 1, 2021, from a social media site in China, 14 pages.

Big events of 2020 for the labourers: the oppression by the bourgeoisie and the resistance of the proletariat, a summary of the year’s events by ‘Gonghao 51’, 24 pages.

Seven Maoist students detained in Beijing after talking to foreign media, from the website of Radio Free Asia, January 25, 2019, 3 pages.

Chinese police detain Marxist student leader on Mao’s birthday, from the website of Radio Free Asia, December 26, 2018, 3 pages. This student leader at Peking University was on his way to a meeting he organized on the 125 anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong.

Marxist students detained, manhandled by security guards at Peking University, from the website of Radio Free Asia, December 28, 2018, 3 pages. This is a follow-up to the report above.

Police detain Maoist labour activists on campuses across China, from the website of Radio Free Asia, November 12, 2018, 3 pages. This is about the further spreading of Maoist struggle by youth which was originally sparked by the Jasic Workers’ Solidarity Group in Guandong.

Cornell University cuts ties with Chinese school after crackdown on students, Javier Hernández, New York Times, October 29, 2018, 2 pages. In connection with support by students at Renmin University in Beijing for the Jasic Workers’ struggle.

Maoists call on China’s official union to stand up for workers, follow-up report on the Jasic Workers’ Solidarity Group, from the website of Radio Free Asia, October 25, 2018, 2 pages. One of the prominent activists in the JWSG, Yue Xin, has not been seen in more than 60 days. She has apparently been arrested or exiled to the countryside. Other JWSG workers are also still detained in what can only be viewed as an attempted fascist suppression of the working class struggle.

China’s Government censors shut down references to Mao-inspired labour movement, further report on website of Radio Free Asia, August 21, 2018, 3 pages.

Dozens detained amid Maoist-led rights campaign at Chinese factory, report on website of Radio Free Asia, July 30, 2018, 4 pages.

Maoist labour campaigner ‘kidnapped’, believed detained, in China’s Guandong, report on website of Radio Free Asia, August 13, 2018, 4 pages. The Maoist woman referred to is Shen Mengyu. This is a follow-up to the next item above.

Hong Kong’s May 16 demonstration commemorating the 52 Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, May 2018, 8 pages.

Maoist writer jailed for subversion, report on website of Radio Free Asia, January 19, 2012, 3 pages. About a 10-year prison sentence handed down to self-identified Maoist, Li Tie.

Yu Quan-yu, a truly unforgettable committed revolutionary in our era, Li Zhen-cheng. A remembrance of a Maoist revolutionary who was falsely labelled as a ‘rightist’ back in the 1950s, but who remained a revolutionary nevertheless. In both Chinese and English translation. August 17, 2010, 11 pages.

A memorial meeting for Chairman Mao and other martyrs, at Luoyang City, Henan Province. Posted on the ‘Utopia’ website (www.wyzxsx.com) on April 14, 2010. Includes a link to the video of the original memorial speech in Chinese.

Economic bust is big boom for Mao, an article in the Toronto Star about the Utopia Bookshop in Beijing, a centre for Maoist books and magazines. March 25, 2009, 4 pages.

Some thoughts regarding our future revolution, by a Revolutionary Old Guard, Wei Wei, 5 pages. This article was distributed on the Maoist Revolution email list in the U.S. on November 9, 2008, along with the notice that it was translated from Chinese from the www.hongqiwang.com web site. The author seems to take a fairly strong nationalist line, and views the current regime as that of a bureaucrat and comprador bourgeoisie (rather than a national bourgeoisie). But he also is a strong supporter of Paris Commune style democracy.

China: signs of ultra-leftist support to Maoists of India and Nepal, D. S. Rajan, October 5, 2005.

On December 24, 2004, Maoists in China get three year prison sentences for leafleting: a report on the case of the Zhengzhou Four, Monthly Review, January 2005, 5 pages.

Without rejection, there can be no rebirth, My declaration of withdrawal from the Party, by Zhang Lushi, an old Chinese Communist Party member, July 19, 2001, 5 pages. A very powerful and touching letter.

Other Documents

The present state, structure and operation of Party Organizations, from the ‘ABCs of the Communist Party of China’ series, n.d., but circa 2010 (when Hu Jintao was General Secretary), 28 pages.

Resolution on CPC History (1949-1981), claiming to be an ‘authoritative assessment of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution’, including the ‘Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China [adopted by the 6th Plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the CCP on June 27, 1981] and two shorter documents, Beijing, FLP, 1981, 127 pages. This is the official verdict on Mao and the GPCR by the capitalist-roaders who seized power in a coup d’état after Mao’s death.

Chinese support for the Palestinian People and Revolutionary Movements in the Gulf in the 1960s and their reversal in the 1970s, June 2016. No other information.

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US-China People’s Friendship Association (UCPFA)

Three main rules of discipline

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US-China People’s Friendship Association (UCPFA)

The U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association was formed on a national basis in 1974, largely under the impetus of revolutionary-minded Americans who were enthusiastic about the Chinese Revolution and especially Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which had recently occurred in China. (The earlier regional organization, the New York U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association began in August 1971, and other regional groups also started from around that time forward.)

After Mao’s death, and during the following years as it gradually became more and more obvious that China was fast changing from a socialist country back into a capitalist one, the composition of the USCPFA qualitatively changed, and the tone of the political materials produced by it strongly shifted away from sympathy for world proletarian revolution and into apologetics for the new bourgeois regime in China. This is already apparent in some of the materials below from 1977-1979.

From 1974 until 1979 the USCPFA published a magazine called New China, which featured articles on Chinese revolutionary politics as well as many on Chinese culture. Beginning in 1981 it began publishing a new magazine, U.S.-China Review which of course has had a very different political line.

During the early more revolutionary-minded period, the USCPFA also issued a number of pamphlets on important political questions.

[The introduction (with the historical background) as well as all the material on this page were provided by the comrades at bannedthought. We thank them for their work.]

US-China People’s Friendship Association

In China, managers work!, text by the U.S.-China Friendship Association of the San Francisco Bay Area, with many well drawn cartoon illustrations and photographs, United Front Press (San Francisco), c. 1971, 24 pages.

The Taiwan Question: roadblock to friendship, USCPFA Pamphlet Series Number 1, August 1975, 16 pages.

Opium and China: New China kicked the habit, USCPFA Pamphlet Series Number 2, August 1975, 24 pages.

Chou En-lai: Conversations with Americans, by Bill Hinton, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]

Black man in the New China, by John Oliver Killens, USCPFA China Reprint Series, August 1976, 24 pages.

Deep roots in two countries, by James Veneris, USCPFA China Reprint Series, 1977, 14 pages.

Down in the Kailan Mines — Chinese Workers: Past and Present, by Jack Chen and Janet Goldwasser, USCPFA China Reprint Series, n.d. (c. 1977), 24 pages.

From A-bombs to Agriculture, by Joan Hinton, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]

Remembering Koji Ariyoshi, by Hugh Deane, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]

Freedom Railway, by Martin Bailey, USCPFA China Reprint Series. [Not yet available.]

Americans talk about US-China relations, USCPFA China Reprint Series. [Not yet available.]

They all look so healthy! – an introduction to health care in the People’s Republic of China, USCPFA China Series Number 6, August 1978, 40 pages.

China and Indochina: The realities behind the headlines, pamphlet issued by the New York chapter of the USCPFA, March 8, 1979, 24 pages.

China and SALT II: Questions and Answers, Educational Pamphlet No. 1 of the New York chapter of the USCPFA, n.d. (but probably late 1979), 6 pages.

Refugees from Viet Nam: China’s View, Educational Pamphlet No. 2 of the New York chapter of the USCPFA, n.d. (but probably late 1979), 6 pages.

New China Magazine (1974-1979)

1974

Preliminary Concept Issue, 36 pages.

1975

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 48 pages.

Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1975), 48 pages.

1976

Vol. 1, No. 4 (January 1976), 48 pages.

Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 1976), 48 pages.

Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 1976), 48 pages.

Vol. 2, No. 3 (December 1976), 48 pages.

1977

Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1977), 48 pages.

Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 48 pages.

Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall 1977), 48 pages.

Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 1977), 36 pages. 1978 Calendar pull-out supplement with this issue, with very nice wood-block prints (pp. 19-26)

1978

Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1978), 48 pages.

1979

Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1979), 48 pages.

Other US- China friendship organisations

New York U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association (1971-1974)

China and US newsletter

Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 1972), 4 pages.

Miscellaneous materials

October 1st Celebration of the 24th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, mimeographed program from the 1973 meeting in New York City, 11 pages.

American Friends of China in Europe

China Report – bulletin of the AFCE

Vol. 1, No. 1 (January-February 1973), 4 pages.

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