Studying history

Opium ship

Opium ship

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Studying history

On Studying Some World History, by Shih Chun (1973). (Peking: FLP, 1973), 68 pages. Consists of four articles;

  • Why it is Necessary to Study World History
  • Again on Studying World History
  • On Studying Some History About Imperialism
  • On Studying Some History of the National Liberation Movement

Confucius — ‘Sage’ of the Reactionary Classes, by Yang Jung-kuo. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 75 pages.

The Opium War, by the Compilation Group for the History of Modern China Series, 1st edition, 149 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1976)

A Brief History of the United States, by Shih Chan [Chun?] (1972). A 40-page pamphlet written as an introduction to U.S. history for workers and peasants in China. This English translation was done in 1976 by the Chinese Translation Group in Berkeley, CA.

Long Live the Victory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! – In Commemoration of the Centenary of the Paris Commune, by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi and Jiefangjun Bao, 48 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1971)

The Reform Movement of 1898, by the Compilation Group for the History of Modern China Series, 1st edition, (Peking: FLP, 1976), 150 pages.

The Yi Ho Tuan Movement of 1900, by the Compilation Group for the History of Modern China Series, about what is called the Boxer Rebellion in the West, (Peking: FLP, 1976), 148 pages.

The Historical Experience of the War Against Fascism, by the Editorial Department of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], 1965, 27 pages.

Twenty-Sixth Anniversary of the ‘February 28’ Uprising of the People of Taiwan Province, articles and speeches. (Peking: FLP, 1973), 33 pages.

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Philosophy and Political Economy

Serving the people with dialectics

Serving the people with dialectics

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Philosophy and Political Economy

Mao Tse-tung: Four Essays on Philosophy, (Peking: FLP, 1966), 146 pages. [With a small amount of underlining and marginal notes.]

Materialist Dialectics Helps Fighters Make Ideological Progress, by Chen Chin-yuan, originally in Jiefangjun Bao [Liberation Army Daily], January 10, 1966, 19 pages. This English translation is from the 1968 pamphlet Mao Tse-tung’s Thought is the Invincible Weapon. 87 pages

Selected Essays on the Study of Philosophy by Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, (Peking: FLP, 1971), 96 pages.

Serving the People with Dialectics – Essays on the Study of Philosophy by Workers and Peasants, (Peking: FLP, 1972), 58 pages.

Serving the People with Dialectics, essays on the study of philosophy by workers and peasants, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 50 pages.

Philosophy is No Mystery – Peasants Put Their Study to Work, (Peking: FLP, 1972), 88 pages.

Three Major Struggles on China’s Philosophical Front (1949-64), 4 articles, (Peking: FLP, 1973), 76 pages.

Fundamentals of Political Economy, also known as the Shanghai Textbook. This book was originally published in Chinese in Shanghai in 1974 as part of the Youth Self-Education Series designed for individual or group study. The first half of the book is about the political economy of capitalism and capitalist-imperialism. Chapter 11 is about Soviet social-imperialism [socialism in name, imperialism in fact]. And the rest of the book is about the political economy of socialism. This is the 1977 translation of the entire volume, as edited by George Wang, 272 scanned sheets, 506 pages.

The portions of this volume on the political economy of socialism were later issued in a revised translation edited by Raymond Lotta (with a Foreword and Afterword) under the title Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook (NY: Banner Press, 1994), 404 pages.

Why China Has No Inflation, by Peng Kuang-hsi, (Peking: FLP: 1976), 72 pages.

The pragmatist philosophy of the modern bourgeoisie, Chen Yuan-hui, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 143 pages.

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Images and impressions of Pre-Liberation China

Yun Kang 1933

Yun Kang 1933

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Images and impressions of Pre-Liberation China

China, by J. W. Ludowici, (Hong Kong: 1926), 43 pages. A curious and idiosyncratic pamphlet.

The Living China: A Pictorial Record — 1930, huge book with hundreds of photographs and with captions in Chinese and English, 378 pages.

Nanking Pictorial, by Chu Chi (or Chu Sieh), 1936, 104 pages. This is a collection of over 300 photographs of this part of China during the early 1930s, with captions in Chinese and English.

Nanking, 200 Aufnahmen von Hedda Hammer, text von Alfred Hoffman, [200 photographs with text in German], (Shanghai: Verlag von Max Noessler & Co., 1945), 256 pages.

Travels of a Photographer in China: 1933-1946, by Hedda Morrison (née Hammer), (Hong Kong: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), includes many of the same photos in the above volume but in better quality, 252 pages.

Nèiménggû gû jiànzhú, in Chinese. (Peking: 1959), 122 pages. This is a collection of photos of old buildings and structures in Inner Mongolia.

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