Chinese Literature Magazine – 1951-1981

The workers are the most imaginative

The workers are the most imaginative

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Chinese Literature Magazine 1951-1981

‘In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine.’

From: “Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art” (May 1942), Mao Tse-tung Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 86.

Even whilst prosecuting, organising and developing military tactics in the war against the Japanese Fascist invaders Mao realised that literature and art were not only important to success in that campaign but he was also laying the foundations for the construction of Socialism once victory had been won.

In this he followed in the footsteps of both Lenin and Stalin, in the Soviet Union, who had both realised that Socialism cannot be achieved solely by taking political control as well as the ownership of the land and industry – what was more important was convincing and changing the thinking of those who had been brought up in ignorance, subservience and a lack of confidence in what they could attain, if only they tried.

Education, literature, art (in all its forms) and science – which could only be achieved through massive and extensive literacy and numeracy campaigns – was integral to this new, workers and peasants inspired ‘Enlightenment’.

In no country in the world – even in Britain where the first industrial revolution really started to change society – did the ruling capitalist class make a concerted effort to ‘educate’ the oppressed workers and peasants until there had been a movement from those exploited workers to educate themselves.

Religion, in all its insidious forms throughout the world, was the only education the oppressed needed – to maintain their oppression. In virtually all those societies the control of knowledge was in the hands of the ruling ‘elite’ and their theocratic hangers-on.

Ignorance was perpetuated by; the fear of eternal damnation in the afterlife – whether a hell or as coming back as something even more insignificant than the present; imagery, be it paintings or statues in European Christian churches, fed fear and subservience; crass, sycophantic homilies from the likes of Confucianism in Asia – and its tireless variants where kowtowing is the norm; or the situation of tribal elders and ‘caciques’ maintaining their control in Africa and Latin America the aim was ‘not to rock the boat’.

But the aim of Communists is not to rock but to sink the boat.

Through knowledge, through culture, through a realisation of their power workers and peasants throughout the world can ‘turn the world upside-down’.

After Mao made the short declaration of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in Tienanmen Square on 1st October 1949 the new state set about putting the theory into practice.

Within a couple of years they were producing material in English to show the rest of the world what they were doing, giving the lead in the production of a new proletarian culture.

Unfortunately we do not have access (as of yet) of all these magazines but a significant number are presented to the rational and thinking reader.

If anyone can help in filling in the gaps that effort will be very much appreciated.

Welcome to Chinese Literature.

1951:

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1952:

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1953:

Different types of birds

Different types of birds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – Spring, 324 pages. Contents include:

On the ideological remoulding of writers and artists

Remould our thoughts to serve the masses

Sun over the Sangkan River (Stalin Prize for Literature winner 1951) – complete novel

  • 2 – Summer, 158 pages, Contents include:

‘The White Haired Girl’ – Chinese Opera – which was to become one of the ‘model plays’ of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Chu Yuan: Great Patriotic Poet – a poet from the Warring States period of Chinese history, in the 4th century BCE

  • 3 – Autumn (Not yet available)
  • 4 – Winter (Not yet available)

1954:

Celebrating the Constitution of the People's Republic of China

Celebrating the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – Spring, 182 pages. Contents include:

Two stories – Lu Hsun

Chinese folk songs – Ho Chi-fang

New realities and new tasks – Mao Tun

  • 2 – Summer, 246 pages. Contents include:

‘Wall of Bronze’ – part of a novel about the Chinese People’s War of Liberation

Short stories from the Tang period (618-907)

Comrade Huang Wen-yuan – the story of a Chinese volunteer in the Korean War

  • 3 – Autumn, 184 pages. Contents include:

Stories for children

Life and creative writing – Ting Ling

Mrs Shih Ching – Ai Wu

  • 4 – Winter, 218 pages. Contents include:

The lives of the scholars – Wu Ching-tzu

The realism of Wu Ching-tzu

‘The Palace of eternal youth’ and its author – Hung Shen

1955:

Looking at chrysanthemums

Looking at chrysanthemums

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – Spring, 216 pages. Contents include:

Short stories from new Chinese writers

Tales from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties

Cultural events – news about recent developments in the cultural sphere

  • 2 – Summer, 194 pages. Contents include:

Tu Fu (a poet of the Tang Dynasty in the 8th century) – Lover of his people

Poems of Tu Fu

Cultural Events – developments in the cultural field

  • 3 – Autumn, 186 pages. Contents include:

Ashma, a Shani ballad

Early vernacular tales – Fan Ning

Stories from the Ming Dynasty

  • 4 – Winter, 186 pages. Contents include:

The Test, a play in five acts – Hsia Yen

Sanliwan village, a new novel

The legend of the rose – Wei Chi-lin

1956:

State cattle farm

State cattle farm

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – Spring (Not yet available)
  • 2 – Summer (Not yet available)
  • 3 – Autumn, 231 pages. Contents include:

Poems and folk tales from the Uighur national minority

A Thousand Miles of Lovely Land – a novel written by Yang Shuo, a Chinese Volunteer in the Korean Fatherland Liberation War

Reminiscences of Lu Hsun

  • 4 – Winter, 268 pages. Contents include:

Articles on; ‘Building a Socialist literature’ and ‘The key problems in literature and art’

Four short stories by Lu Hsun

Fifteen Strings of Cash – the libretto of a Kunchu Opera

A series of wood engravings commemorating the 20th anniversary of the death of Lu Hsun

Index for 1956 issues.

1957:

Through co-operation the electric light is fixed

Through co-operation the electric light is fixed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – Spring, 229 pages. Contents include:

An article on the important role of art and literature in the building of Socialism

Kuan Han-Ching – Outstanding Dramatist of the Yuan Dynasty

Stories about Children

  • 2 – Summer, 250 pages. Contents include:

Three One-Act Plays – written by worker/peasants in Socialist China

China’s classical and modern literature – comparing and contrasting the role of literature throughout China’s history

Mongolian folk tales

  • 3 – Autumn, 236 pages. Contents include;

Two short stories by Yu Ta-fu

Ancient Chinese sculpture

Controversy over art and literature

  • 4 – Winter, 212 pages. Contents include;

Fifteen years since the Yenan ‘Talks’

Reminiscences of the Red Army Veterans

Five Tibetan fables

Chinese ghost and fairy stories of the 3rd to the 6th century – Hsu Chen-Ngo

1958:

Please give it back to the owner

Please give it back to the owner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The October Revolution and the task of building a Socialist culture – Chou Yang

A journey into strange lands – Li Ju-chen

Poems – Emi Siao

Revisionist ideas in literature – Yao Wen-yuan

Next-time port (a children’s story) – Yen Wen-ching

Writers forum: Notes on life – Lei Chia

  • 3 – May-June, 178 pages. Contents include;

Eighteen poem by Mao Tse-tung

A great debate on the literary front – Chou Yan

Kuan Han-ching, a great thirteenth century dramatist – Cheng Chen-to

The Peacock Maiden, a folk tale

On the Tibetan Highland (portion of a novel) – Hsu Huai-chung

Indian literature in China – Chi Hsien-lin

The historical development of Chinese fiction (Part 1) – Lu Hsun

Notes on literature and art – a series of three articles looking at the past and the present

The Self-Destruction of Howard Fast – a critical appraisal of the North American writer

    • Supplement: ‘Oppose U.S.-British interference in the internal affairs of the Arab Countries’, against imperialist military intervention in Lebanon, Iraq, and other countries, 20 pages.
  • 6 – November-December, 194 pages. Contents include:

The historical development of Chinese fiction (Part 2) – Lu Hsun

Episodes from the Korean War

A collection of 43 Folk Songs

    • Supplement: ‘Statement of Chou En-lai … on the situation in the Taiwan Straits area’, and two related documents, 8 pages.

1959:

Onward, towards and even higher goal

Onward, towards and even higher goal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 258 pages. Contents include:

Chinese literature in 1958 – Shao Chuan-lin

The Tashkent spirit: Appeal of the Asian and African Writers Conference to World Writers

An ordinary labourer – Wang Yuan-chien

  • 2 – February, 232 pages. Contents include:

Travel notes: a visit to the Old Soviet Areas – Wu Wen-tao

Keep the Red Flag flying (second instalment of a novel) – Liang Pin

Notes on literature and art: New traditions in Chinese prose – Wu Hsiao-ju

  • 3 – March, 182 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Peking Stage in 1958 – Yu Wen

Chinese picture story books – Chiang Wei-pu

Folk tales: The envoy of the Prince of Tibet

  • 4 – April, 158 pages. Contents include:

Yueh-fu song: The bride of Chiao Chung-ching – Anonymous

Notes on literature and art: Dough figures – Yang Yu

Reminiscences: Forest of the rustling leaves – Huang Hsin-ting

  • 5 – May, 182 pages. Contents include:

The May the Fourth New Cultural Movement – Mao Tse-tung

Essays – Lu Hsun

Writing for a great cause – Chu Chiu-pai

  • 6 – June, 163 pages. Contents include:

The SS International Friendship – Lu Chun-chao

Profile: Chang Tien-yi and his young readers – Yuan Ying

Writings of the last generation: On the bridge – Wang Lu-yen

  • 7 – July, 184 pages. Contents include:

Bridges galore (a Szechuan opera)

Travel notes: The inarticulate traveller – Chen Pai-chen

Notes on literature and art: Szechuan Opera – Wang Chao-wen

  • 8 – August, 166 pages. Contents include:

The Cloud Maiden – Yang Mei-ching

Praying for rain (a Tantzu story) – Yang Pin-kuei

Stories: The shrewd vegetable vendor – Wang Wen-shih

  • 9 – September, 152 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun on Literature and Art

Sunflowers turned into big mushrooms – Kao Hsiang-chen

Fourth sister – Hai Mo

The worker’s village (a poem) – Man Jui

Notes on literature and art: My new opera – Mei Lan-fang

Performances from abroad – Yang Yu

  • 11 – November, 164 pages. Contents include:

The glow of youth (an essay) – Liu Pai-yu

Notes on literature and art: The modern Chinese theatre and the dramatic tradition – Ouyang Yu-chien

Stories: A bridge for Galha Ford – Liu Keh

  • 12 – December, 186 pages. Contents include:

Programmes from abroad: The Bolshoi ballet in China – Jack Chen

Beethoven interpreted by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra – Chao Feng

Stories: Mother and daughter – Li Chun

1960:

Be a good, virtuous student

Be a good, virtuous student

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January. (Not yet available)
  • 2 – February, 144 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Modern Chinese short stories – Sung Shuang

Pages from history: Forty days on the banks of Tungting Lake – Chang Shu-chih

Travel notes: A thousand li across Southern Sinkiang – Pi Yeh

  • 3 – March, 150 pages. Contents include:

The song of youth (first instalment of a novel) – Yang Mo

Caught in the flood (a reportage) – Kuo Kuang

Notes on literature and art: The Great hall of the People in Peking – Liang Szu-cheng

  • 4 – April, 160 pages. Contents include:

New folk songs

Raise higher the banner of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought on literature and art – Lin Mo-han

Notes on literature and art: The museum of Chinese History – Wang Li-hui

  • 5 – May, 148 pages. Contents include:

Essays in memory of the Martyrs – Lu Hsun

Notes on literature and art: Our art is advancing with the time – Tsai Jo-hung

Chekhov’s anniversary

150th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin

  • 6 – June, 162 pages. Contents include:

Anecdotes of the Long March: A pair of cloth shoes – Chiang Yao-huei

Cartoon films: Mural on a Commune yard wall (a cartoon film scenario)

The new cartoon films – Hua Chun-wu

  • 7 – July, 166 pages. Contents include:

Hail the people’s spring: The chain reaction of the anti-Imperialist struggle – Kuo Mo-jo

Poetry for Cuba: Cuba, I salute you – Emi Hsiao

Notes on literature and art: Art exhibition of the People’s Liberation Army – Tuan Chang

  • 8 – August, 176 pages. Contents include:

Japanese writers’ delegation in China: Chinese writers stand together with the fighting Japanese writers – Mao Tun

Traditional operas: The revival of two operas – Chang Keng

Notes on literature and art: Literary ties between China and Latin America – Chou Erh-ju

  • 9 – September, 216 pages. Contents include:

Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s talk with the Japanese Writers’ Delegation

Ar activities in the anti-US Imperialism Propaganda Week: Smash the US Paper Tigers – Chou Wei-chih

Exhibitions of modern Japanese painting in Peking – Yeh Chien-yu

  • 10 – October, 206 pages. Contents include:

Greetings to the Third Congress of Chinese Literary and Art Workers – Lu Ting-yi

The Builders (first instalment of a novel) – Liu Ching

The Chinese style in art – a review of the National Exhibition of Art – Teng Wen

  • 11 – November, 170 pages. Contents include:

Reflect the age of the Socialist Leap Forward, promote the Leap Forward of the Socialist Age! Mao Tun

A writer’s responsibility – Sha Ting

Red night (a story) – Hsiao Mu

  • 12 – December, 216 pages. Contents include:

Study Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s most firm, most thorough-going Revolutionary spirit

Mirages and sea-markets (a sketch) – Yang Shuo

A short introduction to Old Chinese fables

1961:

The People's Commune is good

The People’s Commune is good

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 198 pages. Contents include:

In his mind a million bold warriors – a reminiscence of the fighting life of Chairman Mao by one of his fighting comrades, Yen Chang-Lin

Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of Leo Tolstoy

Tearing the mask off the U.S. armed forces – the story of an incursion of US naval forces on Chinese territory in October 1945

  • 2 – February (Not yet available)
  • 3 – March (Not yet available)
  • 4 – April (Not yet available)
  • 5 – May (Not yet available)
  • 6 – June (Not yet available)
  • 7 – July (Not yet available)
  • 8 – August (Not yet available)
  • 9 – September (Not yet available)
  • 10 – October (Not yet available)
  • 11 – November (Not yet available)
  • 12 – December (Not yet available)

1962:

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1963:

A good pupil

A good pupil

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January (Not yet available)
  • 2 – February (Not yet available)
  • 3 – March (Not yet available)
  • 4 – April (Not yet available)
  • 5 – May (Not yet available)
  • 6 – June (Not yet available)
  • 7 – July, 128 pages. Contents include:

A woman writer of distinction – the peasant writer Ju Chih-chuan

Face designs in Chinese Opera

Chinese translations of Latin American literature

  • 8 – August, 144 pages. Contents include:

On the militant task of China’s literature and art today

Stormy Years – a novel about the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression

How the ‘Bai’ Learned a Lesson – Uighur folk tale

  • 9 – September, 130 pages. Contents include:

Stormy Years – more excerpts from the novel

The Collected Works of Chu Chiu-pai (Qu Qiubai) – later to be criticised during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

The Collected Works of Hung Shen – dramatist and film maker

  • 10 – October, 122 pages. Contents include:

Heroes of the marshes – a classic tale of peasant resistance in 12th century China (an excerpt)

Japanese literary works in Chinese translation

Some thoughts on cartooning

  • 11 – November, 126 pages. Contents include:

An interview with the playwright Tsao Yu (Cao Yu) – he was also criticised during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

Two stories by Lu Hsun – The white light and The lamp that was kept alight

Remembering Dark Africa – three poems from a collection by Han Pei-ping

  • 12 – December, 136 pages. Contents include:

Two short stories by Yu Ta-fu (Yu Dafu) – Arbutus Cocktails and Flight

Truth, imagination and invention

Passages from an autobiography of Chi Pai-shih (Qi Baishi) – a painter in the traditional style

1964:

The magnificent hydroelectric power station on the Xi'an river

The magnificent hydroelectric power station on the Xi’an river

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 134 pages. Contents include:

Writings of the last generation – Wang Tung-chao and Wu Tsu-hsiang

Introduction to classical painting

Notes on drama

  • 2 – February, 136 pages. Contents include:

Excerpt from the novel ‘The Builders’ by Liu Ching

Writings of the last generation – Yang Chen-sheng

Notes on art

  • 3 – March (Not yet available)
  • 4 – April (Not yet available)
  • 5 – May (Not yet available)
  • 6 – June (Not yet available)
  • 7 – July (Not yet available)
  • 8 – August (Not yet available)
  • 9 – September (Not yet available)
  • 10 – October (Not yet available)
  • 11 – November (Not yet available)
  • 12 – December (Not yet available)

1965:

Listen to Chairman Mao

Listen to Chairman Mao

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 128 pages. Contents include:

Stormy seas – Chi Ping

Portraying the new people of our age

The lean horse (play) – An Wen

  • 2 – February, 118 pages. Contents include:

Pillar of the south (poem) – Tsai Jo-hung

Sisters-in-law – Hao Jan

Reportage in contemporary Chinese writing

  • 3 – March (Not yet available)
  • 4 – April (Not yet available)
  • 5 – May (Not yet available)
  • 6 – June (Not yet available)
  • 7 – July (Not yet available)
  • 8 – August (Not yet available)
  • 9 – September (Not yet available)
  • 10 – October (Not yet available)
  • 11 – November (Not yet available)
  • 12 – December, 210 pages. Contents include:

An episode from the years of war – Li Ying-ju

The blacksmith and his daughter – Liu Keh

Dream of a gold brick

1966:

Studying for the Revolution

Studying for the Revolution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 136 pages. Contents include:

Taking goods to the countryside (a short comedy) – Chao Shu-jen

New Sculptures – Fu Tien-chou

  • 2 – February (Not yet available)
  • 3 – March (Not yet available)
  • 4 – April (Not yet available)
  • 5 – May (Not yet available)
  • 6 – June, 138 pages. Contents include:

Some problems concerning dramas

On revolutionary modern themes – Tao Chu

Introducing a classical painting: Hsu Ku’s ‘Willow and Mynahs’ – Hu Ching-yuan

  • 7 – July (Not yet available)
  • 8 – August, 162 pages. Contents include:

Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

China in the midst of high-tide of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

The Revolutionary Ballet ‘The White-Haired Girl’

  • 9 – September (Not yet available)
  • 10 – October, 180 pages. Contents include:

Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and ArtMao Tse-tung

Songs in praise of Chairman Mao

Repudiate Chou Yang’s revisionist programme for literature and art – Wu Chi-yen

  • 11 – November, 139 pages. Contents include:

Celebrate the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – articles

Poems

Notes on literature

  • 12 – December, 147 pages. Contents include:

Long Live Chairman Mao, long life, long, long life to him – The great leader celebrates National Day with the Revolutionary Masses.

1967:

Concentrate your hatred into the soul of your weapon and annihilate the American aggressors

Concentrate your hatred

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 162 pages. Contents include:

An issue almost completely devoted to a commemoration and celebration of the work and life of the writer Lu Hsun

  • 2 – February. (Not yet available)
  • 3 – March, 158 pages. Contents include:

The Red Lantern which cannot be put out – Kao Liang

Repudiation of the Black Line: On the Counter-revolutionary double-dealer Chou Yang – Yao Wen-yuan

Red Guards on the Long Match

  • 4 – April, 160 pages. Contents include:

Repudiation of the Black Line: Hua Chun-Yu is an old hand at drawing black anti-Party ‘artoons

The Clarion Call of the ‘January Revolution’

We must revolutionize our thinking and then revolutionize sculpture

Articles and a photo spread about the improved clay sculptures in the famous ‘Rent Collection Courtyard’ collection.

  • 5-6 – May-June, 200 pages. Contents include:

Tributes to Norman Bethune:

In memory of Norman Bethune – Mao Tse-tung

A Great Communist Fighter – Yeh Ching-shan

Repudiation of the Black Line: The real meaning of Chou Yang’s ‘Theory of broad subject-matter

  • 7 – July, 138 pages. Contents include:

On the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Patriotism or national betrayal

Literary and art workers repudiate the top Party person in authority taking the capitalist road

The death knell of imperialism is tolling – Feng Lei

  • 8 – August, 226 pages. Contents include:

Talks at the Yenan Forum of Literature and Art – Mao Tse-tung

Fight to safeguard the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

On the Revolution in Peking Opera – Chiang Ching

Taking the Bandits’ Stronghold (Model Peking Opera) Script and 12-page set of colour photos.

  • 9 – September, 208 pages. Contents include:

Articles by Comrade Mao Tse-tung:

Letter to the Peking Opera Theatre after seeing ‘Driven to join the Liangshan Mountain Rebels’

Give serious attention to the discussion of the film ‘The life of Wu Hsun’

Letter concerning studies of ‘The dream of the Red Chamber’

Two instructions concerning literature and art

  • 10 – October, 163 pages. Contents include:

On ‘Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, let a Hundred Schools of Thought contend’ – Mao Tse-tung

Raid on the White Tiger Regiment (a modem Peking opera)

For ever uphold the orientation that literature and art must serve the workers, peasants and soldiers – Wang Hsiang-tung

  • 11 – November, 160 pages. Contents include:

Shachiapang (a revolutionary Peking opera)

Learn from revolutionary heroes

Let us write songs in praise of the heroic workers, peasants and soldiers

  • 12 – December, 138 pages. Contents include:

Comments on Tao Chu’s two books – Yao Wen-yuan

Literary criticism and repudiation: The ringleader in peddling a ‘Literature and Art of the whole people’

Performance in China of the Vietnamese acrobatic troup

1968:

Everyone is a soldier in defence of the fatherland

Everyone is a soldier in defence of the fatherland

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 132 pages. Contents include:

The culture of New Democracy – Mao Tse-tung

Literary criticism and repudiation: Expose the counter-revolutionary features of Sholokhov – Shih Hung-yu

Fighting South and North (a film scenario)

  • 2 – February, 130 pages. Contents include:

Literary criticism and repudiation: A manifesto of opposition to the October Revolution – Hung Hsueh Chun

Tear off the mask of the ‘Culture of the entire People’ – Fan Hsiu-wen

  • 3 – March, 172 pages. Contents include:

Hail the mass publication of Chairman Mao’s works

Forum on the clay sculptures ‘Family histories of airmen’

Literary criticism and repudiation: Apologist for Bukhrarin, agent of the kulaks – Li Ching

  • 4 – April, 134 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers

Literary criticism and repudiation: The banner of the October Revolution is invincible – Chung Yen-ping

  • 5 – May, 134 pages. Contents include:

Speech at the Chinese Communist Party‘s National Conference on propaganda work – Mao Tse-tung

Literary criticism and repudiation: Expose the nature of the Soviet Revisionists’ vaunted ‘humanism’ – Fan Hsiu-wen

  • 6 – June, 118 pages. Contents include:

Statement by Comrade Mao Tse-tung, in support of the Afro-American struggle against violent oppression

Literary criticism and repudiation: A review of ‘Days and Nights’ – Hsieh Sheng-wen

Repudiate Tao Chu’s Revisionist programme for literature and art

Commemorate the 26th Anniversary of the Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art: Let Our theatre propagate Mao Tse-Tung’s thought forever – Ya Hai-jung

Unfold mass repudiation, defend Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary line in literature and art – Hsieh Sheng-wen

Revolutionary literature and art must serve the workers, peasants and soldiers

  • 9 – September. (Not yet available)
  • 10 – October, 120 pages. Contents include:

Forum on literature and art: Mao Tse-tung’s Thought is a beacon for Revolutionary literature and art – Chen Ping and Li Ming-hui

The fundamental task of Socialist literature and art – Sun Kang

We shall always sing of the Red Sun in our hearts – Chou Kuo

Literature and art must serve Proletarian Politics – Hsia Lin-ken

  • 11 – November, 132 pages. Contents include:

The working class must exercise leadership in everything – Yao Wen-yuan

Notes on art: Greet the new era of Proletarian Revolutionary literature and art – Ting Hsueh-lei
A brilliant example of making foreign things serve China – Kao Chang-yin

    • Supplement: “Communique of the Enlarged 12th Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China”, Adopted on October 31, 1968, 12 pages.
  • 12 – December, 139 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: The course of a militant struggle – Wen Wei-ching

Magnificent ode to the worker, peasant and soldier heroes

1969:

Support the rural population and serve 500 million peasants

Support the rural population and serve 500 million peasants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 120 pages. Contents include:

On the Docks (a revolutionary model Peking opera)

Literary criticism and repudiation: Peasants criticise the Revisionist line in literature and art

  • 2 – February. (Not yet available)
  • 3 – March, 120 pages. Contents include:

Revolutionary stories: Debate over a piece of land – Lo Chung-tung

Literary criticism and repudiation: Lackey of imperialism, revisionism and reaction; renegade to Socialism – Chen Mou

  • 4 – April, 120 pages. Contents include:

Revolutionary stories: The story of protecting Chairman Mao’s portrait

Literary criticism and repudiation: We are history’s witnesses

Unmask the ‘Leader of the Workers’ Movement’

    • Supplement: ‘Press Communique of the Secretariat of the Presidium of the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, April 1, 1969.
    • Supplement: Fold-out photo of the newly-built Yangtse River Bridge at Nanking.
  • 5 – May, 122 pages. Contents include:

Red detachment of women (a revolutionary model ballet)

On the revolution in education: How the old poor peasant set up a school

Literary criticism and repudiation: Sinister exemplar of Liu Shao-chi’s theory ‘Exploitation has its merit’

    • Supplement: ‘Press Communique of the Secretariat of the Presidium of the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China’, April 24, 1969.
  • 6 – June, 123 pages. Contents include:

‘Guerrillas of the plain’ (a film story)

Song of new horizons (Poem) – Chi Nien-tung

‘A soldier and an old woman’ (Short story) – Sha Hung-ping

  • 7 – July, 195 pages. Contents include:

(Most of this edition devoted to the 9th Congress)

Report to the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of ChinaLin Piao

The Constitution of the Communist Party of China

  • 8 – August. (Not yet available)
  • 9 – September, 120 pages. Contents include:

Revolutionary stories: Moistened by rain and dew, young crops grow strong

Notes on art: Red artist-soldiers and the revolution in fine arts education

  • 10 – October, 120 pages. Contents include:

Ugly performance of self-exposure – Chung Jen

Revolutionary stories: Raising seedlings

Literary criticism and repudiation: Comments on Stanislavsky’s ‘System’

Speech by Premier Chou En-lai – at the reception celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

Fight for the further consolidation of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat – in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

1970:

Learn from Comrade Wang Guofu

Learn from Comrade Wang Guofu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January. (Not yet available)
  • 2 – February, 124 pages. Contents include:

‘Heroic sisters on the grassland’ (an animated cartoon in colour)

Notes on art: Drawn from life, but on a higher plane

Brilliant example of the Revolution in Peking Opera Music

  • 3 – March, 130 pages. Contents include:

A red heart loyal to Chairman Mao

Revolutionary stories: A new family

Literary criticism and repudiation: A reactionary novel which commemorated an erroneous line

  • 4 – April, 128 pages. Contents include:

A cock crows at midnight (a puppet film scenario)

Literary criticism and repudiation: On Lau Shaw’s ‘City of the cat people’

  • 5 – May, 134 pages. Contents include:

Literary criticism and repudiation: Revolutionary war is excellent

The world’s people love Chairman Mao

To Great Chairman Mao

The era of Chairman Mao

    • Supplement: ‘China successfully launches its first man-made Earth satellite’, press communique, April 25, 1970.
  • 6 – June, 150 pages. Contents include:

Leninism or Social-Imperialism?

Notes on art: Singing battle songs, boldly press on – Niu Chin

The stagecraft of a model Revolutionary Opera -Shu Hao-chin

    • Supplement: ‘People of the World, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!”, statement by Mao Tsetung, May 20, 1970, 4 pages.
  • 7 – July. (Not yet available)
  • 8 – August, 136 pages. Contents include:

In Commemoration of the 28th Anniversary of the publication of ‘Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art’: Remould world outlook

The Red Lantern (May 1970 script)

  • 9 – September, 128 pages. Contents include:

Literary criticism and repudiation: The Red Army, led by Chairman Mao is an army of heroes – Chung An

Essays: Always marching along the road of serving the workers, peasants and soldiers

  • 10 – October, 112 pages. Contents include:

‘Worker with a loyal heart’ – Hsiang Chun

A story of Sino-Vietnamese friendship

Unforgettable days in Shihchiacha – Yan Teh-ming

  • 11 – November. (Not yet available)
  • 12 – December. (Not yet available)

1971:

Learning how to prepare for war

Learning how to prepare for war

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January. (Not yet available)
  • 2 – February, 122 pages. Contents include:

Philosophy in the hands of the masses: Two bothers study philosophy

Notes on art: The colour film ‘Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy

Literary criticism and repudiation: Expose the plot of U.S. and Japanese reactionaries to resurrect the dead past – Tao Ti-wen

  • 3 – March, 120 pages. Contents include:

Leader of the Hsiatingchia production brigade

Revolutionary stories: Red Hearts and Green Sprouts

News from the Vietnam Front: Sing battle songs

  • 4 – April, 126 pages. Contents include:

Stories: Third Time to School – Lu Chao-hui

Raiser of sprouts – Chang Wei-wen

Poems: Our Olunchun Girl – Yu Tsung-hsin

Sketches: A night in ‘Potato’ village – Tai Mu-jen

  • 5 – May, 126 pages. Contents include:

‘Tunnel Warfare’ (a film scenario)

Notes on art: A film of great beauty – Ting Yuan-chang

  • 6 – June, 120 pages. Contents include:

In Commemoration of the Centenary of the Paris Commune

The principles of the Paris Commune are eternal

Battle Flag (a poem) – Yu Tsung-hsin

Salute to the literature of the Paris Commune – Hua Wen

  • 7 – July, 132 pages. Contents include:

On the Long March with Chairman Mao‘ – Chen Chang-feng

Literary criticism and repudiation: Hero or renegade? – Hsiao Wen

  • 8 – August, 144 pages. Contents include:

In his mind a million bold warriors – Yen Chang-lin

Notes on literature and art: She sings on the university platform

Fight on till victory!

  • 9 – September. (Not yet available)
  • 10 – October, 128 pages. Contents include:

Writings by Lu Hsun

Stories: A Madman’s Diary

The New Year’s SacrificeEssays: In Memory of Miss Liu Ho-chen

‘Fair play’ should be put off for the time being

Thoughts on the League of Left-wing writers

Lu Hsun – Pioneer of China’s Cultural Revolution – Choa Chien-jen

  • 11 – November, 140 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: New archaeological finds – Hsiao Wen

A new sculpture

Literary criticism and repudiation: On the reactionary Japanese film ‘Gateway to Glory’ – Tao Ti-wen

  • 12 – December, 132 pages. Contents include:

Beat the Aggressors (a film scenario)

Revolutionary reminicences: A little hero to remember – Li Chih-kuan and Chang Feng-ju

Notes on opera: In praise of the Korean People’s fight against aggression – Hsin Wen-liang

1972:

Another good harvest

Another good harvest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 118 pages. Contents include:

Two stories by Lu Hsun:

Medicine

My Old Home

Notes on the arts: Militant songs and dances from Romania – Hu Wen

Revolutionary Japanese Ballet – Shih Nan

  • 2 – February, 128 pages. Contents include:

Men of Red Hill Island (a story) – Jen Pin-wu

Revolutionary reminiscences: Liu Hu-lan – Tsin Ching

Notes on art: Art recreated – Ah Jung

  • 3 – March, 124 pages. Contents include:

The Stockman (an excerpt from the novel The Sun Shines Bright) – Hao Jan

Poems: Ode to ‘The Internationale’ – Chou Li-yi

Song of Discipline -Tsao Yung-hua

  • 4 – April, 122 pages. Contents include:

Literary critcism: Li Po and Tu Fu as friends – Kuo Mo-jo

From the artists notebook: In praise of the heroic Vietnamese

  • 5 – May, 180 pages. Contents include:

‘Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art’ by Mao Tsetung

‘On the Docks’ [Model Peking Opera] (January 1972 script.)

A Great Programme for Socialist Literature and Art – Shih Ta-wen

A Cultural Work Team on the Plateau – Ai Hung-liu

On a New Front

Light Cavalry of Culture – Hsin Hua

  • 6 – June, 146 pages. Contents include:

My Childhood (excerpts from the novel) – Kao Yu-pao

Notes on literature and art: An Opera on Proletarian Internationalism – Wen Chun

How I became a writer – Kao Yu-pao

Meeting “Haguruma” Artists

  • 7 – July, 168 pages. Contents include:

Song of the Dragon River (a modern Peking Revolutionary Opera)

About the film ‘The White-Haired Girl’ – Sang Hu

Wild lilies bloom red as flame (Shensi-Kansu folk song)

  • 8 – August, 144 pages. Contents include:

In commemoration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of Chairman Mao’s ‘Talks at the Yenan forum on literature and art’

Adherence to Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line means victory

Our artistic heritage and our new art

A general review of new art works – Pien Cheh

  • 9 – September, 156 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun‘s essays: Literature and Sweat

Literature and Revolution

The Revolutionary Literature of the Chinese Proletariat and the Blood of the Pioneers

Literary criticism: Writing for the Revolution – Li Hsi-fan

  • 10 – October, 160 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Song of the Dragon River – Pei Kuo

Discovery of a 2000 year-old tomb – Wen Pien

  • 11 – November, 134 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: New puppet shows – Wen Shih -ching

Innovations in traditional painting

Creating new paintings in the traditional style -Chien Sung-yen

  • 12 – December, 118 pages. Contents include:

Stories by Lu Hsun: Kung I-chi

A Small Incident

In the Tavern

Literary criticism: Intellectuals of a bygone age – Li Hsi-fan

1973:

Defend and develop the island together

Defend and develop the island together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 128 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: New developments in handicraft arts – Pien Min

Two new ivory carvings – Pien Chi

A soldier and a poet – Lin Kuo-liang

  • 2 – February, 116 pages. Has a small amount of underlining. Contents include:

Short stage shows: One Big Family (a clapper-ballad) -Wang Fa and Chu Ya-nan

Camping in the Snow (a comic dialogue) – Chang Feng-chao and Tiao Cheng-kuo

Notes on art: New items on the Peking stage – Chi Szu

How we produced ‘Women Textile Workers’

  • 3 – March, 140 pages. Contents include:

Raid on the White Tiger Regiment (a modern Revolutionary Peking Opera

Stories: The Breathing of the Sea – Shih Min Three young comrades – Wang An-yu

  • 4 – April, 116 pages. Contents include:

Iron Ball (excerpt from a novel) – Chiang Shu-mao

Notes on art: A New Style of Bamboo Painting – Cheh Ping

  • 5 – May, 122 pages. Contents include:

Drama: Half a basket of peanuts (a Shaohsing opera)

Notes on literature and art: Landmarks in the life of a great writer – Li Hsi-fan

How the Opera ‘Half a basket of peanuts’ came to be written – Chen Hua

  • 6 – June, 122 pages. Contents include:

Tales: An old couple – Li Fang-ling

Between Two Collectives – Chu Kuang-Hsueh

Notes on literature and art: The forest of stone inscriptions – Shan Wen

Home of folk-songs – Hsu Fang

  • 7 – July, 118 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: Some new woodcuts – Tan Shu-jen

Literary criticism: Critique of the film ‘Naturally there will be successors’ – Keng Chien

  • 8 – August, 164 pages. Contents include:

Sketches: Twinkling Stars – Liu Chien-hsiang

Nets – Chang Chi

Notes on art: Exhibition of archaeological finds of the People’s Republic of China – Ku Wen

How I came to write ‘Storm warning’ – Kao Hung

Foshan scissor-cuts – Tang Chi-hsiang

  • 9 – September, 122 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Two portrayals of Chinese Women in Lu Hsun‘s stories – Tang Tao

New paintings of the Yellow River – Chao Chuan-kuo

Shihwan stoneware – Miao Ting

  • 10 – October, 120 pages. Contents include:

Stories: A young pathbreaker – Hsiao Kuan-hung

Out to Learn – Chou Yung-chuang

The Girl in the Mountains – Li Hui-hsin

Ideals in Life – Liu Yang and Hua Tung

A New Teacher – Cheng Hsuan and Yi Shih

  • 11 – November, 128 pages. Contents include:

Whirling Snow Brings in the Spring (excerpt from a novel) – Chou Liang-szu

Notes on art: Productive labour and art – Hsu Huai-ching

Chinese acrobatics – Fu Chi-feng

  • 12 – December, 122 pages. Contents include:

Two Poems – Hsiang Ming

Notes on art: Painting for the Revolution – Hsin Wen

Tsaidan Choma, Tibetan Singer – Hsin Hua

1974:

Harbour of the Fatherland

Harbour of the Fatherland

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 144 pages. Contents include:

Azalea Mountain (a revolutionary modern Peking opera) – Wang Shu-yuan and others

Stories:

Keep the golden bell clanging – Li Hsia

Meng Hsin-ying – Lin Chen-yi

  • 2 – February, 138 pages. Contents include:

Reportage: The People of Tachai – Hu Chin

Literary criticism: ‘Create a host of new fighters’ – Shih Yi-ko

  • 3 – March, 142 pages. Contents include:

A vicious motive, despicable tricks – A criticism of M. Antonioni’s anti-China film ‘China’

Exhibitions: New developments in traditional Chinese Painting – Chi Cheng

  • 4 – April, 118 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun, a Great Fighter Against Confucianism – Lin Chih-hao

Do musical works without titles have no class Character? – Chao Hua

Interviews: Introducing the writer Hao Jan -Chao Ching

  • 5 – May, 150 pages. Contents include:

Fighting on the plain (a revolutionary modern Peking opera) – Chang Yung-mei and others

On the classical heritage: ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’ must be studied from a class
standpoint – Sun Wen-kuang

The Dream of the Red Chamber (Chapter IV) – Tsao Hsueh-chin

  • 6 – June, 130 pages. Contents include:

Criticism of Lin Piao and Confucius:

Confucius, ‘Sage’ of All Reactionary Classes in China – Shih Hua-tsu

Why are we denouncing Confucius in China? -Cheh Chun

Why this hullabaloo from the Soviet Revisionist Clique? – Sa Wen

  • 7 – July, 114 pages. Contents include:

Criticism and repudiation: Comments on the Shansi Opera ‘Going up to reach Peach Peak three times’ – Chu Lan

Notes on literature and art: Anti-Confucian struggles of peasant insurgents – Chi Liu

How I Made the painting ‘The Young Worker’ – Wang Hui

  • 8 – August, 120 pages. Contents includes:

Notes on literature and art: Keep to the correct orientation and uphold the Philosophy of struggle – Chu Lan

Art derived from the life and struggle of the masses – Hsin Wen-tung

Paintings by one of today’s peasants – Jen Min

Criticism of Lin Piao and Confucius: Confucius’ reactionary ideas about music – Hsu Hsia-lin

  • 9 – September, 130 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: A Decade of Revolution in Peking Opera – Chu Lan

Three young artistes in the Revolution in Peking Opera – Ah Wen

I painted the heroic Taching oil workers – Chao Chih-tien

  • 10 – October, 144 pages. Contents include:

Sons and Daughters of Hsisha (excerpts from the novel) – Hao Jan

Poems by peasants of Hsiaochinchuang

Songs of oil workers

Criticism of Lin Piao and Confucius: Confucius’ reactionary views on Literature and Art – Wen Chun

  • 11 – November, 122 pages. Contents include:

Storming Tiger Cliff (an excerpt from a novel) – Ktn Hsien-hung

Poems: Sparks from the welder’s torch – Yuan Chun

  • 12 – December, 112 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: New Achievements in Modern Drama – Hsiao Lan

Paintings by Shanghai workers – Hu Chin

1975:

What a pleasure it is not to have to bend our backs while planting rice

What a pleasure it is not to have to bend our backs while planting rice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 122 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: National Art Exhibition – Wang Wu-sheng

The ‘Erh-hu’ and ‘Pi-pa – Wu Chou-kuang

  • 2 – February, 140 pages. Contents include:

Sparkling Red Star (a film scenario) – Wang Yuan-chien and Lu Chu-kao

Notes on art: Adapting a novel for the screen – Lu Chu-kao

Creating the image of Winter Boy – Li Chun

As I acted Winter Boy I learned from him – Chu Hsin-yun

From a cameraman’s notebook – Tsai Chi-wei

  • 3 – March, 138 pages. Contents include:

Pink Cloud Island (excerpts from the novel) – Chou Hsiao

Notes on art: Amateur worker-artists of Yangchuan – Pien Tsai

More rare finds from Han Tombs – Tsung Shu

  • 4 – April, 134 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: The Creation of the ‘Red Silk Dance’ – Chin Ming

Some Popular Chinese wind instruments -Chou Tsung-han

Two oil paintings -Chi Cheng

  • 5 – May, 106 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun‘s writings: From hundred plant garden to three flavour study

Notes on literature: On Reading ‘From hundred plant garden to three flavour study’ – Li Yun-ching

  • 6 – June, 132 pages. Contents include:

Stories: The Sunlit Road

Tempered Steel

Notes on literature and art: New children’s songs from a Peking Primary School – Hsin Ping

New piano music – Lo Chiang

  • 7 – July, 128 pages. Contents include:

The New Silk Road Across tie Skies (a poem) – Chang Yun-mei

Notes on literature and art: The struggle between the Confucians and Legalists in the History of Chinese Literature and Art – Chiang Tien

The Children’s Orchestra of Tachai – Yin Yuan

  • 8 – August, 122 pages. Contents include:

A Young Hero (excerpt from a novel) – Shih Wen-chu

Notes on art: Chinese artists discuss their study of the ‘Yenan Talks’ by Chairman Mao

A new revolutionary dance drama – Hsin Wen-tung

The peasant songwriter Shih Chang-yuan – Yin Yuan

  • 9 – September, 132 pages. Contents include:

The Bright Road (excerpt from the novel) – Hao Jan

Notes on art: On the dance drama ‘Ode to the Yimeng Mountains’ – Tien Nui

Wuhu iron pictures – Lou Yang-shen

  • 10 – October, 124 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: Introducing the Uighur Opera ‘The Red Lantern’ – Chumahung Suritan

Exhibition of children’s art in Shanghai – Kung Ping-tsu

Relics of the Long Match – Wen Hsuan

  • 11 – November, 126 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun’s writings: The New-Year Sacrifice

On Lu Hsun’s Story ‘The New-Year Sacrifice’ -Chung Wen

Notes on literature and art: Songwriter of the Korean Nationality – Hsin Hua

Terracotta figures found near Chin Shih Huang’s tomb – Ni Ta and Chin Chun

  • 12 – December, 114 pages. Contents include:

Criticism of ‘Water Margin’

The current criticism of ‘Water Margin’ – Chih Pien

What sort of novel is ‘Water Margin’? – Shih Chung

1976:

The most spectacular of landscapes

The most spectacular of landscapes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 130 pages. Contents include:

Reminiscences of the Long March:

Crossing the Golden Sand River – Hsiao Ying-tang

Red Army men dear to the Yi People – Aerhmushsia

National minority poems and songs:

Sing, Skylark – Saifudin

Stride Forward – Saifadin

  • 2 – February, 140 pages. Contents include:

Criticism of ‘Water Margin’:

Lu Hsun‘s Comments on the novel ‘Water Margin’ – Kao Yu-heng

Notes on art: The clay sculptures ‘Wrath of the Serfs’ – Kao Yuan

Our experience in sculpting ‘Wrath of the Serfs’

  • 3 – March, 124 pages. Contents include:

Two poems – Mao Tse-tung

Chingkangshan revisited – to the tune of Shui Tiao Keh Tou

Two birds: A dialogue – to the tune of Nien Nu Chiao

New film: ‘The second spring’ – Tsung Shu

  • 4 – April, 156 pages. Contents include:

Poems – Mao Tse-tung

Boulder Bay (a revolutionary modern Peking opera) – Ah Chien

Lu Hsun‘s writings: The other side of celebrating the recovery of Shanghai and
Nanking

  • 5 – May, 132 pages. Contents include:

New film: Breaking with old ideas – Tien Shih

Notes on literature and art: On Chairman Mao’s recently published Poems

On the long poem ‘The song of our ideals’ – Wen Shao

Some new woodcuts – Yen Mei

  • 6 – June, 138 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Mass debate on Revolution in Literature and Art – Hsin Hua

A recently discovered poem by Lu Hsun – Chou Wen

A hundred flowers blossom in the field of dancing – Wen Sung

Juvenile art – Hsiao Mei

  • 7 – July, 142 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: New developments in Chinese Acrobatics – Hsiao Fu

New group sculpture ‘Song of the Tachai Spirit’ – Wen Tso

What the Revolution in Literature and Art has taught me – Yang Chun-hsia

  • 8 – August, 120 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Continue to advance along Chairman Mao’s Line on Literature and Art – Yen Feng

New paintings by sSoldiers – Ko Tien

Some Taiping stone carvings – Chi Chen

  • 9 – September, 148 pages. Contents include:

Investigation of a chair (a modern revolutionary Peking opera) – Ah Chien

Notes on literature and art: The portrayal of the heroine in ‘Investigation of a Chair’ – Tsung Shu

‘The Undaunted’, a story by Chen Chung-shih

Poems from Hsiaochinchuang

  • 10 – October, 132 pages. Contents include:

Spring Shoots (a film scenario)

Notes on literature and art: A song in praise of the Cultural Revolution – Shu Hsin

Pictures depicting the Cultural Revolution – Yen Mei

The entire issue was devoted to a commemoration of the life and work of Comrade Mao Tse-tung, who died in September 1976.

Includes some of his poems and many pictures taken throughout his life, both pre and post-Liberation.

1977:

Great celebration of the victorious people

Great celebration of the victorious people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 126 pages. Contents include:

‘The Pioneers’ [Part I], a film scenario about the Taching Oilfield, together with an 8-page selection of colour photographs from the film.

Poems

Smash the ‘Gang of Four‘ – Kuo Mo-jo

A grand festival for all revolutionaries – Kwang Wei-jan

Chairman Hua in his green army uniform – Yu Kuang-lieh

Chairman Hua leads us forward triumphantly – Shih Hsiang

  • 2 – February, 140 pages. Contents include:

In memory of Chairman Mao: A Memorable Voyage – Hsin Chun-wen

Chairman Mao inspects Nanniwan – Tung Ting-heng

Chairman Mao shines like a red sun over the Earth – Li Shu-yi

Mass criticism: Chiang Ching, the ‘political pickpocket’ – an exposure of Chiang Ching

  • 3 – March, 124 pages. Contents include:

In memory of Premier Chou:

Our beloved Premier Chou at Meiyuan New Village

Our beloved Premier Chou‘s three visits to Tachai

Mass criticism: The struggle around the film about Premier Chou En-lai

  • 4 – April, 116 pages. Contents include:

Stories:

High in the Yimeng Mountains – Nieh Li-ko and Liang Nien

Sister Autumn -Chao Pao-chi

Revolutionary relics: A blanket in the Military Museum – Lin Chih-chang

  • 5-6 – May-June, 116 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsin’s writing: The True Story of Ah Q

Mass criticism: Chiang Ching‘s treachery in the criticism of ‘Water Margin’ – Chang Ya-erh

  • 7 – July, 134 pages. Contents include:

Mass criticsm: The ‘Gang of Four‘s’ revisionist line in literature and art – Hua Wen-ying

The truth behind the ‘Gang of Four‘s’ Criticism of the Confucians and glorification of the Legalists – Shih Kao

  • 8 – August, 132 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: About the play ‘Maple Bay’ – Chi Ko

On reading Comrade Chu Teh‘s Poems – Hsieh Mien

Mass criticism: The ‘Gang of Four‘s’ reactionary approach to our cultural heritage – Liu Ming-chin

  • 9 – September, 130 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: Reading Lu Hsun‘s ‘Literature of a Revolutionary Period’ – Sun Yu-shih

An unforgettable night in Yenan – Huang Kang

My recollection of the production and first performances of ‘The White-haired Girl’ – Chang Keng

Two anthologies of poems by Taching workers – Wu Chao-chiang

  • 10 – October, 136 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: In praise of the Taching Spirit – Yang Tung-mei

A grand display of Revolutionary Art – Li Shu-sheng and Shao Ta-chen

Woodcuts in China’s old Liberated areas – Hua Hsia

  • 11 – November, 146 pages. Contents include:

Letter concerning the Study of ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’ – Mao Tse-tung

Restudying Chairman Mao’s ‘Letter concerning the study of ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’ – Li Hsi-fan

  • 12 – December, 120 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun‘s writings: In memory of Wei Su-yuan

Lu Hsun’s friendship with Wei Su-yuan – Tu Yi-pai

1978:

Looking into the distance

Looking into the distance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January, 129 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: Some paintings in the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall – Yuan Yun-fu

The Tung Fang Art Ensemble returns to the stage – Yu Chiang

Introducing classical Chinese literature: Myths and Legends of Ancient China – Hu Nien-yi

  • Supplement: ‘Traditional Chinese Paintings’, colour photographs, 20 pages. Thesupplement to issue No. 1 contained 16 paintings in the Chinese ‘traditional’ style. By publishing these the capitalist state was declaring virtual war on the movement of Socialist Realism and the depiction of workers and peasants in their efforts to construct Socialism.
  • 2 – February, 136 pages. Contents include:

Dr. Norman Bethune in China (a film scenario) – Chang Chun-hsiang and Chao To

Notes on art: Ashes of Revolutionaries Mingle Together – Ma Hai-teh

The Sculptures at The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall – Chi Shu

  • 3 – March, 136 pages. Contents include:

Peking Opera: The making and staging of the Opera ‘Driven to Revolt’ – Chin Tzu-kuang

Driven to Revolt (two scenes from a Peking opera)

Introducing classical Chinese literature: The ‘Book of Songs’ – China’s earliest anthology of poetry – Hsu Kung-shih.

  • 4 – April, 135 pages. Contents include:

Chairman Mao‘s Letter to Comrade Chen Yi Discussing Poetry – A forum on Chairman Mao’s Letter

Battling South of the Pass (excerpts from a novel) – Yao Hsueh-yin

  • 5 – May, 144 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun‘s writings: Village Opera

On Lu Hsun’s ‘Village Opera’ – Fang Ming

Notes on art: Introducing ‘Sketches of the Long Match’ – Chi Feng-ho

Restoration of the Yunkang Caves – Yin Wen-tsu

  • 6 – June, 126 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: An introduction to ‘Li Tzu-cheng – Prince Valiant’ – Mao Tun

The ‘Gang of Four‘s’ attack on progressive literature and art – Chieh Cheng

The Weifang New-Year woodblock prints – Chang Chin-keng

  • 7 – July, 126 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: On reading poems written by Premier Chou in his youth – Chao Pu-chu

Some works from the Arts and Crafts Exhibition – Lien Hsiao-chun

Odsor, a Mongolian Nationality writer – Hsiao Chou

Introducing a classical painting: Chan Tzu-chien’s painting ‘Spring Outing’ – Shu Hua

  • 8 – August, 138 pages. Contents include:

Lu Hsun’s writings:

Preface to ‘A collection of woodcuts by amateur Artists’

Letter to Li Hua

Letter to Lai Shao-chi

Lu Hsun and Chinese woodcuts – Li Hua

  • 9 – September, 139 pages. Contents include:

Cultural event: Prominent cultural figures meet in Peking

Introducing classical Chinese literature: Han Dynasty verse essays and allads – Hu Nien-yi

  • 10 – October, 146 pages. Contents include:

Conference of Writers and Artists: My heart felt wishes (a message) – Kuo Mo-jo

Strive to bring about the flourishing of literature and art (an abridged speech) – Huang Chen

The Literary Scene: News of some veteran writers

  • 11 – November, 138 pages. Contents include:

Notes on lieterature and art: A hundred flowers in bloom again – Tu Ho

‘The Red Lantern Society’ – a new Peking Opera – An Kuei

Batik in China – Teng Feng-chien

Introducing a classical painting: Wu Wei and his painting ‘Fishermen’ – Shu Hua.

  • 12 – December, 134 pages. Contents include:

Notes on literature and art: On creative writing – Mao Tun

Translations of foreign literature – Wei Wen

Ornamental plate designs by Li Ping-fan – Yu Ming-chuan

1979:

Bravely fighting the enemy

Bravely fighting the enemy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes on literature and art:

Yangliuching New-Year pictures – Shao Wen-chin

New productions in the Peking Drama Theatre – Feng Txz

Make the past serve the present and foreign culture serve China – Tu Ho

The role of Critical Realism in European Literature – Liu Ming-chiu

  • 2 – February. (Not yet available)
  • 3 – March, 133 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: New ornamental porcelain produced by Cheng Ko – Pu Wei-chin

‘At the Crossroad Inn’ – Liu Hu-sheng

Introducing a classical painting: Chou Ying and his painting ‘Peach Dream-land’ – Chang Jung-jung

  • 4 – April, 140 pages. Contents include:

When all sounds are hushed (a four-act play) – Zong Fuxian

Lu Xun’s writings: Postscript to ‘The Grave’

A Correspondence on Themes for Short Stories

  • 5 – May, 138 pages. Contents include:

Introducing classical Chinese literature: Tang Dynasty Poets (1) – Qiao Xianzong and Wu Gengshun

Poems of Li Bai

Poems of Du Fu

  • 6 – June, 142 pages. Content includes:

Zhou Enlai on Questions Related to Art and Literature

Memories of Premier Zhou at the 1961 Film Conference – Huang Zongying

  • 7 – July, 130 pages. Contents include:

Cultural exchange: Boston Symphony Orchestra in China -Yan Liangkun

Introducing a classical Chinese painting: Silk Fan Painting ‘Returning Home After Drinking’ – Zhang Rongrong

  • 8 – August, 150 pages. Contents include:

Exhibition of Huang Yongyu’s paintingsRare cultural relics excavatedIntroducing a classical painting: Tang Yin and his painting ‘Four Beauties’ – Tian Xiu

  • 9 – September, 134 pages. Contents include:

Introducing a classical Chinese painting: ‘The Broken Balustrade’ – Li Song

Introducing classical Chinese literature: The Classicist Movement in the Tang Dynasty – Zhang Xihou

Prose writings of Han Yu

Prose writings of Liu Zongyuan

  • 10 – October, 140 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: Sword Dance – Liu Enbo

Introducing a classical painting: Hua Yan and his painting ‘A lodge amid pine trees’ – Qi Liang

  • 11 – November. (Not yet available)
  • 12 – December, 151 pages. Contents include:

Notes on art: Some Chinese Cartoon Films – Yang Shuxin

Introducing a classical painting: ‘The Connoisseur’s Studio’ by .Wen Zhengming – Tian Xiu

1980:

Deep in thought

Deep in thought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1 – January (Not yet available)
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  • 5 – May, 132 pages. Contents include:

Introducing classical Chinese literature: Yuan-Dynasty Drama and San-Qu Songs -Lu Weifen

San-Qu Songs of the Yuan Dynasty

Introducing a classical Chinese painting: Liang Kai’s ‘Eight eminent monks’ – Xia Yuchen

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The cinema: ‘The Effendi’, a new cartoon film – Ge Baoquan

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Introducing classical Chinese literature: Fiction in the Qing Dynasty – Shi Changlu

Selections from the ‘Strange tales of Liaozhu’ – Pu Songling

Five old Chinese fables

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In memory of Agnes Smedley: Lu Xun and Agnes Smedley – Jan and Steve MacKinnon

Reminiscences of Lu Xun – Agnes Smedley

The Ashington miners’ paintings – Chang Pin

1981:

Carry out the Four Modernisations of the Fatherland

Carry out the Four Modernisations of the Fatherland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Book Review: Researches into Tang-Dynasty Poets – Ji Qin

Introducing a Classical Painting ‘Wang Xizhi inscribes fans’ – Shan Guolin

  • 6 – June, 147 pages. Contents include:

Introducing Classical Chinese Literature: A Visit to Yandang Mountain -Xu Xiake

On Taihua Mountain

The Travel Notes of Xu Xiake -Wu Yingshou

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Lu Hsun – poet, essayist and author

Lu Hsun by Tao Yuan-ching

Lu Hsun by Tao Yuan-ching

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Lu Hsun – poet, essayist and author

‘The chief commander of China’s cultural revolution, he was not only a great man of letters but a great thinker and revolutionary. Lu Hsun was a man of unyielding integrity, free from all sycophancy or obsequiousness; this quality is invaluable among colonial and semi-colonial peoples. representing the great majority of the nation, Lu Hsun breached and stormed the enemy citadel; on the cultural front he was the bravest and most correct, the firmest, the most loyal and the most ardent national hero, a hero without parallel in our history. The road he took was the very road of China’s new national culture’ Mao Tse-tung

 

Who was Lu Hsun?

Lu Hsun - Great Revolutionary Thinker Writer

Lu Hsun – Great Revolutionary Thinker Writer

 

 

 

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As a Historian of Chinese Literature

A Brief History Of Chinese Fiction

A Brief History Of Chinese Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Selected Works

Selected Works of Lu Hsun - Vol 1

Selected Works of Lu Hsun – Vol 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Selected Works of Lu Hsun - Vol 3

Selected Works of Lu Hsun – Vol 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Works of Lu Hsun - Vol 4

Selected Works of Lu Hsun – Vol 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Stories

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most Popular Stories

True Story Of Ah Q

True Story Of Ah Q

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old Tales Retold

Old Tales Retold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dawn

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Wild Grass

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Lu Hsun’s Role in the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution

Commemorating Lu Hsun - Our Forerunner in the Cultural Revolution

Commemorating Lu Hsun – Our Forerunner in the Cultural Revolution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Writings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Comrade Mao Tse-tung
Comrade Mao Tse-tung

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The Great ‘Marxist-Leninist’ Theoreticians

The Writings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Chairman Mao Tse-tung was one of the small group of towering giants produced as a result of the struggles of the workers and peasants throughout the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries. (The others were Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Enver Hoxha.)

Selected Works – published during the period of Socialism

The decision to published a comprehensive collected of the written works of Chairman Mao Tse-tung was taken in the early days of the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution, appearing in many world languages in a very short period of time. However, the 4 volumes produced during that period only went up to 16th September 1949, a couple of weeks before the Declaration of the People’s Republic. For this reason the ‘official’ Selected Works only includes these 4 volumes.

Selected Works, Volume 1, FLP, Peking, 1967, 362 pages.

The First and Second Revolutionary Civil War Period – March 1926 – August 1937.

Includes many important works such as:

Analysis of classes in Chinese Society

A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire

On Practice

On Contradiction

Selected Works, Volume 2, FLP, Peking, 1967, 484 pages.

The Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan (I) – July 23rd 1937 – May 8th 1941

Includes many important works such as:

Combat Liberalism

Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan

On Protracted War

On New Democracy

Selected Works, Volume 3, FLP, Peking, 1967, 304 pages.

The Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan (II) – March 1941 – August 9th 1945

Includes many important works such as:

Reform Our Study

Talks at Yenan Forum on Literature and Art

On Coalition Government

The Foolish Man who Removed the Mountains

Selected Works, Volume 4, FLP, Peking, 1969, 472 pages.

The Third Revolutionary Civil War Period – August 13th 1845 – September 16th 1949

Includes many important works such as:

Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong

Correct the ‘Left’ Errors in Land Reform Propaganda

Carry the Revolution Through to the End

Index to Selected Works (and Selected Military Writings)

An academically produced index of the four ‘official’ volumes of the Selected Works of Chairman Mao Tse-tung which might be found useful.

Index to Selected Works of Chairman Mao, Union Research Institute, Hong Kong, 1968, 190 pages.

Selected Works – produced in the early stages of the counter-revolution

Only one further volume of the Selected Works of Chairman Mao Tse-tung was produced by the state-run Foreign Languages Press in Peking. It was produced whilst the coup for the leadership of the Communist Party of China was still in progress. Produced within a year of the Chairman’s death was probably too short a time for serious political ‘revision’ to have occurred but this has to be considered when referring to contentious issues that might appear in this volume. Although there was an intention to continue the production of the Selected Works nothing else appeared after Volume 5. (The ‘Publication Note’ on pages 5-6 gives an idea of the situation of flux at the time of publication.)

Selected Works, Volume 5, FLP, Peking, 1977, 534 pages.

The period of the Socialist revolution and Socialist Construction (I) – September 21st 1949 – November 18th 1957

Includes interesting, and some important, works such as:

Liu Shao-chi and Yang Shang-kun Criticized for breach of Discipline in Issuing Documents in the Name of the Central Committee Without Authorization

Combat Bourgeois Ideas in the Party

On the Correct handling of Contradictions Among the People

Concordance of proper nouns in the five-volume English language Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, compiled by Harry M Lindquist and Roger D Mayer, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 1968, 72 pages.

Selected Works – collected together outside of China

Once it became clear that the Chinese Revisionists would not be publishing more of Chairman Mao’s Selected Works (or that they couldn’t be trusted if they did) various groupings around the world made attempts to glean through the mass of paperwork and try to determine what might have been produced by the Chairman. This was not as difficult as it might first be thought. Chairman Mao had a very distinctive style and anyone steeped in his work would be able to make a more than intelligent guess whether a work was by him or not. This was especially the case during the early days of the Cultural Revolution when many editorials or unsigned articles were almost certainly from the pen of the great Socialist leader.

The first of those (under the name Volume VI) goes away from the style of the first Five volumes in that it attempts to pick up articles and writings that might have been omitted from those earlier volumes.

Selected Works, Volume VI, Kranti Publications, Secunderabad, India, 1990, 343 pages.

From April 1917 – April 1946

Includes titles such as:

Oppose Book Worship

The League of Nations is a League of Robbers

To be Attacked by the Enemy is not a bad Thing but a Good Thing

A revised, and more complete, edition was published in 2020.

Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VI (2020), Kranti Publications, Secunderabad, India, 2020, 448 pages.

Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VII (2020), Kranti Publications, Secunderabad, India, 2020, 464 pages.

Letters, telegrams and directives from September 23rd 1949 to November 17th 1957.

Volume VIII is a work in progress but we have access to to downloadable version, of what has already been produced, so that is included here.

Selected Works, Volume VIII – partial, Maoist Documentation Project, 2004, 353 pages.

From January 1958-1961

Includes titles such as:

Red and Expert

Communes are Better

Critique of Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’

Volume IX, produced in India in 1994, returns to the format first used in China in 1967. What’s important about this edition is that this is the first attempt to cover some of the crucial years of the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in any depth.

Selected Works, Volume IX, Sramika Varga Prachuranulu, Hyderabad, 1994, 474 pages.

From May 1963 – September 12th 1971

Includes articles such as:

Where do the Correct ideas Come From?

The Soviet Leading Clique is a Mere Dust Heap

Talk at a Meeting of the Central Cultural Revolution Group

Speech to the Albanian Military Delegation

The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976, Volume 1, September 1949-December 1955, edited by Michael Y. M. Kau and John K Leung, ME Sharpe, New York, 1986, 771 pages.

The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976, Volume 2, Janauary 1956-December 1957, edited by Michael Y. M. Kau and John K Leung, ME Sharpe, New York, 1992, 863 pages.

A critique of soviet economics by Mao Tse-tung, with an introduction by James Peck, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1977, 157 pages.

Mao’s critique of two Soviet books; Political Economy – A Textbook and Joseph Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR.

Mao Zedong On Diplomacy, FLP, Beijing, 1998, 516 pages.

This is a strange one, taking into account where (Beijing) and when (a 1998 translation of the Chinese edition of 1994) it was published. This doesn’t mean that the translations are not accurate or complete (although they might be) but in reading them we must have, at the back of our mind, why were they produced at that particular time.

Mao Zedong on Dialectical Materialism, Nick Knight, ME Sharpe, New York, 1990, 295 pages.

A detailed look at some of the essays that Chairman Mao produced whilst in Yenan in 1937. This was to culminate in the seminal works of On Contradiction and On Practice.

For Mao – Essays In Historical Materialism, Philip Corrigan, Harvie Ramsey and Derek Sayer, Humanities press, New Jersey, 1979, 207 pages.

Chairman Mao talks to the people – Talks and Letters – 1956-1971, edited by Stuart Schram, Pantheon Books, New York, 1974, 352 pages.

A collection of documents which were published in China as part of the struggle against counter-revolutionaries within the Party during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao – From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward, edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu, Harvard Contemporary China Series No 6, 1989, 561 pages.

Speeches from 1957 and 1958.

Mao Papers – Anthology and Bibliography, edited by Jerome Ch’en, Oxford University Press, London, 1970, 221 pages.

The Thought of Mao Tse-tung, Anna Louise Strong, Communist Party of Great Britain, ND, 36 pages.

The following volumes contain various material produced by Chairman Mao in the years before the declaration of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949. They have been collected from numerous sources and their validity and accuracy cannot be verified. As with all collections of Mao’s writing published after his death, whether in China or outside, these have to be treated with care. The very title of the books (Mao’s Road to Power) should already start the alarm bells ringing. There are too many entities with an agenda to distort what he had written but are included here with the aim of making as much material as possible available to those with an interest in the ideas of one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 1, Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 1 – The pre-Marxist period, 1912-1920. edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 1992, 639 pages.

Early writings of the young Mao Tse-tung as he was developing his own ideas before adopting Marxism as the basis of his ideology.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 2, Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 2 – National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920 – June 1927, edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 1994, 543 pages.

The period in the 1920s when Mao was involved with both the Kuomintang and the young Chinese Communist Party, having an impact upon both.

The following volume (No 3) is in two parts due to file size limitations.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 3 – Part 1

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 3 – Part 2

Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 3 – From the Jinggangshan to the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets July 1927 – December 1930, edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 1995, 771 pages.

Writings by Mao about the development of the Chinese Communist Party.

The start of Mao’s interest, and study, of military strategy and tactics.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 4, Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 4 – The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic 1931-1934, edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 1997, 1004 pages.

The period of the Chinese Soviet republic in Jianxi and inner-Party struggles within the Communist Party of China

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 5, Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 5 – Toward the Second United Front, January 1935 – July 1937, edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 1999, 737 pages.

Covering the period of The Long March.

The following two volumes (Nos. 6 and 7) are also in two parts due to file size limitations.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 6 – Part 1

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 6 – Part 2

Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 6 – The New Stage, August 1937 – 1938, edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 2004, 867 pages.

The time of the United Front with the Kuomintang against Japanese aggression.

The period in which Mao outlined his interpretation of Dialectical Materialism in works such as On Contradiction and On Practice.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 7 – Part 1

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 7 – Part 2

Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 7 – New Democracy, 1939-1941, edited by Stuart Schram, ME Sharpe, New York, 2004, 897 pages.

The period of the development of guerrilla warfare and the establishment of base areas behind Japanese lines.

The tactic of flexible united fronts with the Kuomintang and various other groupings.

Mao’s Road to Power – Volume 8

Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Volume 8 – From Rectification to Coalition Government, 1942-July 1945, edited by Stuart Schram, Routledge, New York, 2015, 1436 pages.

When Chairman Mao stressed the necessity of aligning Marxist-Leninist theory with the Chinese reality, the Rectification Campaign.

The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung, Stuart Schram, Cambridge University Press, London, 1989, 242 pages.

Poetry

Mao Tse-tung Poems, FLP, Peking, 1976, 53 pages.

Many people may be surprised to learn that Chairman Mao was also an accomplished poet. Although one of the world’s most revolutionary thinkers his poetry very much follows the traditional style developed over the centuries.

Selected Readings

In the late 1960s/early 70s, as well as producing the Four Volumes of the Selected Works, the Foreign Languages Press also produced a volume of Selected Readings. This single volume contained many of the most important, and most studied, of Chairman Mao’s writings during the period of the Cultural Revolution – not just in China but in many countries of the world.

Selected Readings, FLP, Peking, 1971, 504 pages.

Mao Tse-Tung on Revolution and War, edited and with notes by M Rejai, Doubleday, New York, 1970, 452 pages.

A selection of articles prompted by the events of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Writings on Military Affairs

It is sometimes forgotten that as well as being the principal theoretical leader of the Chinese Revolution Chairman Mao was also a very able military commander. During his lifetime various collections of writings devoted to military affair were published. Although useful in a military sense to this day it is important top remember Chairman Mao’s dictum of always ‘putting politics in command’ – without that military success will always be transitory.

Selected Military Writings, FLP, Peking, 1963, 408 pages.

Contains articles such as:

Why is it Red Political Power can Exist in China?

On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party

Problems of War and Strategy

Manifesto of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army

On Protracted War, FLP, Peking, 1967, 116 pages.

Not just a treatise on warfare but one of Chairman Mao’s most important contributions to Marxist-Leninist theory.

Six Essays on Military Affairs, FLP, Peking, 1972, 393 pages.

Six of the most important and relevant essays that Chairman Mao wrote related to the successful outcome of a military campaign.

On Guerrilla Warfare, US marine Corps, Washington, 1989, 128 pages.

A pamphlet with the basic principles of Guerrilla Warfare that was widely disseminated throughout ‘Free’ China after it was first published in 1937. Produced by the US military, thereby proving the importance of ‘knowing your enemy’. Surprisingly not published in the Selected Works.

Mao Zedong’s Art Of War, Liu Jikun, Hai Feng, Hong Kong, 1993, 277 pages.

A look at Chairman Mao’s military strategy as it was put into practice in the National Liberation War against the Japanese invaders and then the Civil War against the reactionary Kuomintang forces under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung – The ‘Little Red Book’

Produced in millions, in dozens of languages, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, here we have short quotations that distil the essence of Mao Tse-tung Thought.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, FLP, Peking, 1966, 312 pages.

Literature and Art

From the very early days of the struggle to free his country from foreign domination Chairman Mao was aware of the importance of literature and art in any National Liberation struggle as it enabled the oppressed people to establish their own, independent identity. This was developed as the successful struggle of the Chinese People against the Japanese invaders developed into a Civil War for the establishment of a Socialist state. The importance of literature and art probably reached its apogee in China during the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution when the likes of Peking Opera was adapted to represent the struggles and desires of the working people. That theoretical basis came from Mao’s writings during the Anti-Japanese war of Resistance.

Mao Tse-Tung on Art and Literature, FLP, Peking, 1960, 145 pages. (Contains a lot of underlining.) An early compilation, with slightly different contents from the 1967 version (below).

On Literature And Art, FLP, Peking, 1967, 162 pages.

Includes:

Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art – May 1942

Reform Our Study

Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing

The Problem of Culture, Education and the Intellectuals

Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, FLP, Peking, 1967, 42 pages.

Two presentations given at the conference in May 1942.

Five documents on Literature and Art, FLP, Peking, 1967, 12 pages.

Five very short articles addressing the issue of the importance of literature and art in the building of Socialism

Mao Zedong’s Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literaure and Art, a translation of the 1943 text with commentary, Bonnie S McDougall, Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1980, 112 pages.

A new translation of Chairman Mao’s ‘Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art’ together with a commentary on the elements of literary theory that it contains.

On Philosophy

Separating Chairman Mao’s writings into different ‘categories’ is always going to be problematic as all aspects of the struggle are inter-related. This pamphlet, of four essays, was one of those most studied during the period of the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution.

Four Essays on Philosophy, FLP, Peking, 1966, 136 pages.

Contains:

On Practice

On Contradiction

On the correct handing of contradictions among the people

Where do the correct ideas come from?

The Wisdom of Mao Tse-tung, Philosophical Library, New York, 1968, 114 pages. (Quite a lot of underlining.)

Contains the three important articles; On Practice, On Contradiction and On New Democracy.

Five Essays on Philosophy, Foreign Languages Press, Utrecht, 2018, 189 pages.

On Contradiction Study Companion, Redspark Collective, Foreign Languages Press, Paris, 2019.

Individual Pamphlets

Before the publication of the Selected Works and Selected Readings (downloadable above) many individual pamphlets were produced of the writings of Chairman Mao in the early 1960s, in advance of the Cultural Revolution. Some of those are reproduced below. More will be added as and when they become available.

China and the Second Imperialist World War, International Publishers, New York, 1939, 50 pages.

Addresses and interviews by Chairman Mao between May and October 1939.

China’s New Democracy, Progress Books, Toronto, 1944, 72 pages.

An article written by Chairman Mao in 1940 before the war in Europe expanded to include the Soviet Union and before its extension as a World War.

People’s Democratic Dictatorship, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1950, 40 pages.

Speeches made by Chairman Mao in 1949, just before the declaration of the People’s Republic of China.

On the tactics of fighting Japanese Imperialism, FLP, Peking, 1960, 41 pages.

Comrade Mao Tse-tung here explains, in great detail, the possibility and the importance of re-establishing a united front with the national bourgeoisie on the condition of resisting the Japanese.

On Strengthening the Party Committee System, FLP, Peking, 1961, 9 pages.

NO revolution of workers and peasants has achieved a modicum of success, with a chance of lasting more than the 61 days (which includes a week of slaughter of the Communards) of the Paris Commune in France (1871), WITHOUT an organised M-L Party. Get it wrong and the revolution will fail, thousands of workers will die and the revolution will be put back more than a generation.

Our study and the current situation, Appendix: Resolution on certain questions in the history of our Party, FLP, Peking, 1962, 90 pages.

This was a speech made by Comrade Mao Tse-tung at a meeting of senior cadres in Yenan on April 12th 1944 on the subject of the discussions about the history of the ‘Left’ elements within the Party between 1931 and 1934.

Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, FLP, Peking, 1965, 52 pages.

This article was written in March 1927 as a reply to the carping criticisms both inside and outside the Party then being levelled at the peasants’ revolutionary struggle. Comrade Mao Tse-tung spent thirty-two days in Hunan Province making an investigation and wrote this report in order to answer these criticisms.

Notes On Mao Tse-tung’s ‘Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan’, Chen Po-ta, FLP, Peking, 1966, 56 pages.

Preface and Postscripts to Rural Surveys, FLP, Peking, 1966, 8 pages.

Written by Chairman Mao in 1941 in an effort to encourage Party comrades to understand the contemporary situation rather than get caught in thinking that matters don’t change.

A Single Spark can start a Prairie Fire, FLP, Peking, 1966, 18 pages.

Even when is looks like there are so many problems surrounding us that a revolutionary change is impossible we have to remember from a small acorn a mighty oak can grow – all it needs is the right conditions – and under capitalism those conditions are created by the next crisis around the corner!

Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s important talks with guests from Asia, Africa and Latin America, FLP, Peking, 1966, 9 pages.

In May and June 1960 in Tsinan, Chengchow, Wuhan and Shanghai, Chairman Mao received delegations and other friends from the countries and regions in Latin America and Africa and from Japan, Iraq, Iran and Cyprus, who were then visiting China.

Current Problems of Tactics in the Anti-Japanese United Front, FLP, Peking, 1966, 14 pages.

Chairman Mao wrote this outline for a report he made on March 11th 1940 at a meeting of the Party’s senior cadres in Yenan.

For the Mobilization of all the Nation’s Forces for victory in the War of Resistence, FLP, Peking, 1966, 10 pages.

This was an outline for propaganda and agitation written by Chairman Mao on August 25th 1937 for the propaganda organs of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It was approved by the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at Lochuan, northern Shensi.

On the question of Agricultural Co-operation, FLP, Peking, 1966, 36 pages.

This was a report delivered by Chairman Mao on July 31st 1955 at a conference of secretaries of provincial, municipal and autonomous regional committees of the Communist Party of China.

Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong, FLP, Peking, 1967, 8 pages.

Two conversations of Chairman Mao with an American journalist, when the war of liberation against the Japanese invaders had been won and the war against the US/UK /Western imperialist war was taking place against the Kuomintang – the US puppets of what became Taiwan – was still in full force. She was a true friend or revolutionary China and wrote many books to this effect.

The Orientation of the Youth Movement, FLP, Peking, 1967, 16 pages.

This was a speech delivered by the Chairman on May 4th 1939 at a mass meeting of youth in Yenan to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the May 4th Movement. It represented a development in his ideas on the question of the Chinese Revolution.

Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society, FLP, Peking, 1967, 13 pages.

ALL revolutionary movements, whatever country or epoch, need to understand the society in which they are working. A knowledge and understanding of the balance of class forces is vital for the success, or failure, of the revolution.

Why is it Red Political Power can exist in China? FLP, Peking, 1967, 15 pages.

This article was part of the resolution, originally entitled ‘The Political Problems and the Tasks of the Border Area Party Organization’, which was drafted by Comrade Mao Tse-tung on October 5, 1928 for the Second Party Congress of the Hunan-Kiangsi Border Area.

On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship, FLP, Peking, 1967, 21 pages.

This article was written on June 30th 1949 to commemorate the twenty-eighth anniversary of the Communist Party of China.

To be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing, FLP, Peking, 1967, 5 pages.

To be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing.

You know when you are following a correct line when the capitalist and imperialist attack your policies.

Three fundamental articles, FLP, Peking, 1967, 12 pages.

Three revolutionary ‘parables’;

Serve the people

In memory of Norman Bethune

The foolish old man who removed the mountains.

Urgent Tasks following the Establishment of Kuomintang-Communist Co-operation, FLP, Peking, 1968, 16 pages.

The need for China to resolve internal differences in order to present a United Front against the principal enemy, the Japanese imperialist aggressors

Win the masses in their millions for the Anti-Japanese National United Front, FLP, Peking, 1968, 14 pages.

This was the concluding speech made by Chairman Mao at the National Conference of the Communist Party of China held in May 1937.

People of the world unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs

A call by the Chairman for the people of the world to stand up against US imperialism. As valid now as when it was written. Published as a supplement to the weekly political and informative magazine ‘Peking Review’.

People of the world unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs Published in China Reconstructs, 1970, No. 5, Supplement No. 2.

Marxism and the Liberation of Women, Quotations from Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, VI Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung, Union of Women for Liberation, London, n.d., mid-1970s?, 64 pages. Includes a statement of aims of the Union of Women for Liberation.

Record of the Conversation from Chairman Mao’s Audience with the Albanian Women’s Delegation and Albanian Film Workers, May 15 1964, Wilson Centre Digital Archive, ND, 7 pages.

On the Communist Press, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tsetung, Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist), n.d., 200 pages.

The works of Chairman Mao in languages other than English

The writings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung were produced in many different languages. Here we present a few in Spanish.

Citas del Presidente Mao Tse-tung, Ediciones en Lenguas Extanjeras, Pekin, 1967, 208 pages.

‘El pequeño libro rojo’ de citas de las obras del Presidente Mao Tse-tung.

Comentarios sobre el Manual de Economia Politica Sovietico, Lima SA, Peru, ND, 166 pages.

Los comentarios del Presidente Mao sobre el Manual de Economía Política Soviético (un libro de texto por Comunistas) y sobre el libro Problemas Económicos del Socialismo en la URSS de José Stalin.

La guerra de guerrillas, Editorial Huemul, Buenos Aires, 1973, 91 pages.

Un pequeño libro con los principios fundamentales de La guerra de guerrillas, originalmente publicada en 1937.

Cinco Tésis Filosòficas, Lima, Peru, ND, 112 pages.

Sobre la Práctica

Sobre la Contradicción

Sobre el tratamiento correcto de las contradicciones en el seno del pueblo

Discurso ante la conferencia nacional del PCP sobre el trabajo de propaganda

¿De dónde provienen las ideas correctas?

The death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung

The edition of Peking Review that announced the death of Comrade Mao Tse-tung, Peking Review, No 38, 1976.

Eternal Glory to the Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tse-tung, FLP, Peking, 1976, 40 pages.

Memorial speech by Hua Kuo-feng and the decision to construct the memorial hall in Tien an Men Square, Peking.

Contemporary Translations and Commentaries

Chairman Mao’s Primary Directives, Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Document 4 (1976), issued by the General Office of the Central Committee, March 3, 1976, 2 pages. Includes critical comments by Mao on Deng Xiaoping and his associates.

Mao’s Talk with Members of the Politburo who were in Peking, May 3, 1975 – with extensive notes and context information added, 15 pages.

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