China Policy Study Group

Posted on 19/07/2020 by Michael

The Red Flag of the Party

China Policy Study Group

The China Policy Study Group (CPSG) was a group of Left academics in Britain sympathetic and supportive of the Chinese Revolution. They were sponsored by Dr. Joseph Needham, Professor Cyril Offord, Professor Joan Robinson and Professor George Thomson. They published a number of books and pamphlets (including a series of three significant books by George Thomson). They also published a monthly magazine, China Policy Study Group Broadsheet, from January 1964 until December 1981, with one final, special issue in May 1982.

The CPSG probably played a positive role in spreading the ideas of the Chinese Revolution amongst the British Left but don’t seem to have a) really understood Maoism, b) didn’t really accept the true significance of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and c) never understood the meaning and consequences of a ‘revolution is not a dinner party’.

After the death of Chairman Mao they didn’t see the coup d’etat of the ‘capitalist-roaders’ in the Communist Party of China against the revolutionaries within the Party – who were derided as the so-called ‘Gang of Four’. From 1977 to the final issue in may of 1982 they seemed to accept the moving of Chinese society from the revolutionary road to that of the full scale restoration of capitalism without any problems.

The cessation of the publication of the monthly Broadsheet was, therefore, no real loss.

Marxism In China Today, by George Thomson, 1965, 16 pages. This pre-Cultural Revolution pamphlet is a slightly expanded form of a lecture first given on March 15, 1965, under the auspices of the China Policy Study Group.

From Marx to Mao Tse-tung: A Study in Revolutionary Dialectics, by George Thomson, (London: China Policy Study Group, 1971), 96 double pages. Though written over 40 years ago, this is still a fine introduction to revolutionary Marxism. It includes a great many quotations from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and others, all arranged in a way to illustrate the overall coherence and unity of MLM theory.

Capitalism and After: The Rise and Fall of Commodity Production, by George Thomson, (London: China Policy Study Group, 1973), 162 pages. A continuation of the above volume, focusing here on the political economy of capitalism and socialism. Like the first volume, it includes many quotations from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and others.

The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art, by George Thomson, (London: China Policy Study Group, 1974), 132 pages. The third and final volume of Thomson’s introduction to Marxism, which together cover the political, historical and ideological aspects of the subject. This volume, however, is based to a somewhat greater degree on Thomson’s own thinking and work.

Mao’s Last Battle — The Next Stage, by Bruce Smith, China Policy Study Group (London), 1978, 36 pages. This pamphlet focuses on supporting Hua Kuo-feng (Hua Guofeng) and attacking the so-called Gang of Four, with only mild and limited criticism of Deng Xiaoping.

Index for 1964-1981, 10 pages

1969 Volume 6

7 – July 1969, 4 pages

9 – September 1969, 4 pages

10 – October 1969, 8 pages

11 – November 1969, 4 pages

12 – December 1969, 4 pages

Volume 6 Index, 1 page

1970 Volume 7

1 – January 1970, 4 pages

2 – February 1970, 4 pages

3 – March 1970, 4 pages

8 – August 1970, 4 pages

9 – September 1970, 4 pages

1971 Volume 8

No issues available for this year.

1972 Volume 9

6 – June 1972, 4 pages

7 – July 1972, 4 pages

10 – October 1972, 4 pages

1973 Volume 10

11 – November 1973, 4 pages

12 – December 1973, 4 pages

1974 Volume 11

2 – February 1974, 4 pages

3 – March 1974, 4 pages

4 – April 1974, 4 pages

5 – May 1974, 4 pages

6 – June 1974, 4 pages

7 – July 1974, 4 pages

8 – August 1974, 4 pages

9 – September 1974, 4 pages

10 – October 1974, 8 pages

11 – November 1974, 4 pages

12 – December 1974, 4 pages

1975 Volume 12

1 – January 1975, 4 pages

2 – February 1975, 4 pages

3 – March 1975, 4 pages

4 – April 1975, 4 pages

5 – May 1975, 4 pages

6 – June 1975, 4 pages

8 – August 1975, 4 pages

9 – September 1975, 4 pages

10 – October 1975, 4 pages

11 – November 1975, 4 pages

12 – December 1975, 4 pages

1976 Volume 13

1 – January 1976, 4 pages

2 – February 1976, 4 pages

3 – March 1976, 4 pages

4 – April 1976, 4 pages

5 – May 1976, 4 pages

6 – June 1976, 4 pages

8 – August 1976, 4 pages

9 – September 1976, Special Issue on Mao’s Death, 8 pages

1977 Volume 14

1 – January 1977, 4 pages

2 – February 1977, 4 pages

3 – March 1977, 4 pages

4 – April 1977, 4 pages

5 – May 1977, 4 pages

6 – June 1977, 4 pages

7 – July 1977, 4 pages

8 – August 1977, 4 pages

9 – September 1977, 4 pages

10 – October 1977, 4 pages

11 – November 1977, 4 pages

12 – December 1977, 4 pages

1978 Volume 15

1 – January 1978, 4 pages

2 – February 1978, 4 pages

1979 Volume 16

4 – April 1979, 4 pages

5 – May 1979, 4 pages

6/7 – June-July 1979, 8 pages

9 – September 1979, 4 pages

10 – October 1979, 4 pages

11 – November 1979, 4 pages

12 – December 1979, 4 pages

1980 Volume 17

1 – January 1980, 4 pages

2 – February 1980, 4 pages

3 – March 1980, 4 pages

4 – April 1980, 4 pages

5 – May 1980, 4 pages

8 – August 1980, 4 pages

10 – October 1980, 4 pages

11/12 – November-December 1980, 6 pages

1981 Volume 18

1 – January 1981, 4 pages

2 – February 1981, 4 pages

3 – March 1981, 4 pages

4 – April 1981, 4 pages

6/7 – June-July 1981, 8 pages

8 – August 1981, 4 pages

9 – September 1981, 4 pages. (The CPSG announced in this issue that regular publication of the Broadsheet would cease in December 1981.)

10 – October 1981, 4 pages

11 – November 1981, 4 pages

12 – December 1981, 8 pages

1982

Special Issue – May 1982, 8 pages

When the CPSG announced the cessation of the monthly publication from the end of 1981 they suggested that there might be an occasional publication in the future. This ‘Special’ really came out to announce that the option wasn’t feasible and so this was definitely the last of the series that had been published since 1964.

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People’s China

Posted on 18/07/2020 by Michael

The song of friendship

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People’s China

People’s China was an English language magazine, first published on 1st January 1950. It’s aim was stated in the first paragraph of the first page;

‘This is a journal dedicated to cementing unity and friendship between the Chinese people and the progressive people of all lands and to the cause of lasting peace and people’s democracy. Through its pages, we intend to inform our readers, twice a month, off the thought and life of the China that has free herself from the clutches of domestic reactionaries and the yoke of foreign imperialists – that is, the people’s China.’

It should be remembered that this first issue was published a mere three months after Chairman Mao declared the foundation of the People’s Republic of China on 1st October 1949 – thereby demonstrating the importance the Communist Party of China placed on the worldwide dissemination of information about the efforts of the Chinese workers and peasants in the construction of Socialism.

As well as English the magazine was also published in Russian, Japanese, Chinese, French and Indonesian.

People’s China magazine was eventually replace by Peking Review, which served the same purpose but which was published weekly. The other magazines which were produced for the foreign reader were China Reconstructs and China Pictorial.

As this magazine started publication so soon after the success of the Chinese Revolution there were still those in a senior position within the Party who were later to be exposed as traitors and reactionary ‘capitalist roaders’, such as Liu Shao-chi ( Liu Shaoqi) and Teng Tsiao-ping ( Deng Xiaoping). At times they promoted the revolutionary, Socialist ideas of the Party at others they were already developing their pernicious and counter-revolutionary thoughts. These were later exposed and their ideas challenged during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

1950

Vol. I, 1 – January 1, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. I, 2 – January 16, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. I, 3 – February 1, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 4 – February 16, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 5 – March 1, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. I, 6 – March 16, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 7 – April 1, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 8 – April 16, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 9 – May 1, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 10 – May 16, 1950, 28 pages.

Supplement: ‘May Day address by Liu Shao-chi’, 12 pages.

Vol. I, 11 – June 1, 1950, 28 pages.

Vol. I, 12 – June 16, 1950, 32 pages, including Vol. I index (for first half of 1950).

Vol. II, 1 – July 1, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. II, 2 – July 16, 1950, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Agrarian Law’ and ‘The Trade Union Law’, 16 pages.

Vol. II, 3 – August 1, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. II, 4 – August 16, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. II, 5 – September 1, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. II, 6 – September 16, 1950, 32 pages.

Vol. II, 11 – December 1, 1950, 32 pages. (This is a black-and-white reproduction by the U.S. CIA.)

Supplement: ‘China’s Statement to the U.N. on the illegal MacArthur Report‘, 15 pages.

Vol. II, 12 – December 16, 1950, 32 pages. (This is a black-and-white reproduction by the U.S. CIA.)

Supplement: ‘The speeches of China’s Representative at the U.N Security Council’, ‘Chou En-lai’s statement on the Peace Treaty with Japan’, and Index for Volume 2 (second half of 1950), 20 pages.

1951

Vol. III, 2 – January 16, 1951, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘China and the Second World Peace Congress’, 20 pages.

Vol. III, 4 – February 16, 1951, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s statement on the illegal U.N. Resolution’, 4 pages.

Vol. III, 5 – March 1, 1951, 32 pages.

Vol. III, 6 – March 16, 1951, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘World Peace Council resolutions and speech by Kuo Mo-jo’, 12 pages.

Vol. III, 7 – April 1, 1951, 32 pages.

Vol. III, 8 – April 16, 1951, 32 pages.

Vol. III, 9 – May 1, 1951, 44 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Manifesto and Platform of the Vietnam Lao Dong Party’, 8 pages.

Vol. III, 10 – May 16, 1951, 32 pages.

Vol. III, 11 – June 1, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘On Practice’, by Mao Tse-tung. [This supplement is not available, but this work is available here.]

Supplement: ‘Chinese and Soviet notes on the U.S. Draft Peace Treaty with Japan’, 8 pages.

Vol. III, 12 – June 16, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents and speeches on the peaceful liberation of Tibet’, 16 pages. Also includes the Index to Volume III (the first half of 1951).

Vol. IV, 1 – July 1, 1951, Special issue on the 30th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, 48 pages.

Vol. IV, 2 – July 16, 1951, 36 pages.

Vol. IV, 3 – August 1, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents on the cease-fire and armistice negotiations in Korea’, 12 pages.

Vol. IV, 4 – August 16, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents and commentaries on the cease-fire and armistice negotiations in Korea (II)’, 20 pages.

Vol. IV, 5 – September 1, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s statement on the US-British Draft Peace Treaty with Japan’, 8 pages.

Supplement: ‘The trial and conviction of U.S. spies in Peking’, 16 pages.

Vol. IV, 6 – September 16, 1951, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘On the indictment and punishment of war criminals’, 8 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents on the cease-fire and armistice negotiations in Korea (III)’, 24 pages.

Vol. IV, 7 – October 1, 1951, 41 pages (including tipped-in photo of Mao).

Supplement: ‘Presentation of the International Stalin Peace Prize to Soong Ching Ling’, 8 pages.

Vol. IV, 8 – October 16, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents on the cease-fire and armistice negotiations in Korea (IV)’, 8 pages.

Vol. IV, 9 – November 1, 1951, 36 pages.

Vol. IV, 10 – November 16, 1951, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Premier Chou En-lai’s Political Report to 3rd Session of the CPPCC’, 12 pages.

Vol. IV, 11 – December 1, 1951, 40 pages.

Vol. IV, 12 – December 16, 1951, 32 pages. [Includes index for Volume IV (second half of 1951).]

1952

1 – January 1, 1952, 42 pages.

2 – January 16, 1952, 32 pages.

3 – February 1, 1952, 28 pages.

4 – February 16, 1952, 32 pages.

5 – March 1, 1952, 36 pages. [Missing pages 24-25. Pages 32-33 out of order.]

6 – March 16, 1952, 36 pages.

7 – April 1, 1952, 36 pages.

8 – April 16, 1952, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘Statements and reports on the American crime of waging bacteriological warfare in China and Korea’, 16 pages.

9 – May Day (May 1) 1952, 41 pages (including tipped-in paper-cut of Mao).

10 – May 16, 1952, issue itself not yet available.

Supplement: ‘Statements by two American Air Force Officers, Kenneth Lloyd Enoch and John Quinn, admitting their participation in germ warfare in Korea and other documents’, 16 pages.

Index for issues 1-12 in 1952, 3 pages.

14 – July 16 1952, 40 pages.

15 – August 1, 1952, 40 pages (plus errata page).

16 – August 16, 1952, 44 pages.

17 – September 1, 1952, 32 pages.

18 – September 17, 1952, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Report of the International Scientific Commission for the investigation of the facts concerning bacterial warfare in Korea and China’, 28 pages.

19 – October 1, 1952, 49 pages (including tipped-in photo of Mao).

20 – October 16, 1952, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions: Reports and Speeches’, 40 pages.

21 – November 1, 1952, 48 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents of the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions’, 12 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Draft Korean Armistice Agreement and other documents’, 16 pages.

22 – November 16, 1952, 40 pages.

23 – December 1, 1952, 32 pages.

Season’s Greeting Card from Guozi Shudian, 3 pages.

24 – December 16, 1952, 28 pages. [Includes index for second half of 1952 (issues 13-24).]

1953

1 – January 1, 1953, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s Reply to Lester B. Pearson’, and two other foreign policy documents, 8 pages.

2 – January 16, 1953, 36 pages.

Supplement: ‘Appeal of the Congress of the Peoples for Peace’, and one other short statement, 2 pages.

3 – February 1, 1953, 36 pages, but missing pages 17-20 (photo insert).

4 – February 16, 1953, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘A Political Report by Chou En-lai’, and ‘Three documents concerning the Congress of the Peoples for Peace’, 16 pages.

5 – March 1, 1953, 32 pages.

Supplement: ‘An address on the third anniversary of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance’, by Liu Shao-chi, 8 pages.

6 – March 16, 1953 – Memorial issue on the death of Stalin: Note: This copy is missing pages 15-18. Includes two supplements, ‘New facts on US germ warfare in Korea and China’, 16 pages and ‘The 1953 State Budget of the P.R.C.’, 16 pages.

7 – April 1, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Electoral Law of the PRC’, and ‘An explanation of the Electoral Law’, by Teng Hsiao-ping, 16 pages.

8 – April 16, 1953, 40 pages.

9 – May 1, 1953.

10 – May 16, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘China supports a five-power Peace Pact’, and ‘The Chinese Women’s Movement since 1949’, 8 pages.

11 – June 1, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Documents of the Seventh All-China Congress of Trade Unions’, 16 pages.

12 – June 15, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Agreement on the ‘Terms of Reference for the Neutral Nations Reparation Commission’, 4 pages.

Supplement: Index for issues 1-12 in 1953, 4 pages.

13 – July 1, 1953, 41 pages (including tipped-in photo of Mao).

Supplement: ‘Decisions on Mutual Aid and Co-operation in Agricultural Production adopted by the C.C. of the CCP’, 8 pages.

14 – July 16, 1953, 40 pages.

15 – August 1, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Korean Armistice Agreement and other documents’, 32 pages.

16 – August 16, 1953, 40 pages.

17 – September 1, 1953, 40 pages.

18 – September 16, 1953, 40 pages.

19 – October 1, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘A Report on the Chinese People’s Volunteers in Korea’, by General Peng Teh-huai, 32 pages.

20 – October 16, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Communique on national economic, cultural and educational rehabilitation and development in 1952’, by the State Statistical Bureau, 8 pages.

21 – November 1, 1953, 40 pages.

22 – November 16, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Text of the Sino-Japanese Trade Agreement’, 2 pages.

23 – December 1, 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Depositions of nineteen captured US airmen on their participation in germ warfare in Korea’, 68 pages.

24 – December 16, 1953, includes index for issues 13-24 in 1953, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Chou En-lai’s statement on the illegal UN resolution on ‘Atrocities’ in Korea’, and ‘Kuo Mo-jo’s Interview on US ‘Atrocities’ slander’, 6 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Sino-Korean agreement on economic and cultural co-operation and other documents’, 8 pages.

1954

1 – January 1, 1954, 40 pages.

2 – January 16, 1954, 40 pages.

1954 Calendar with painting of Mao proclaiming the PRC in 1949, 2 pages.

3 – February 1, 1954, 44 pages.

4 – February 16, 1954.

5 – March 1, 1954, 40 pages.

6 – March 16, 1954.

7 – April 1, 1954, 42 pages.

Supplement: ‘Decisions on the Development of Agricultural Producers’ Cooperatives’, by the Central Committee of the CCP, 12 pages.

8 – April 16, 1954.

9 – May 1, 1954, 42 pages.

10 – May 16, 1954, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s statements at the Geneva Conference’, 12 pages.

11 – June 1, 1954, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s statement on the Korean Question at the Geneva Conference’, 4 pages.

12 – June 16, 1954, 44 pages, includes index for first half of 1954.

13 – July 1, 1954, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Draft Constitution of the People’s Republic of China’, 16 pages.

Supplement: ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s statements at the Geneva Conference’, 4 pages.

Letter to Readers (requesting feedback), 2 pages.

14 – July 16, 1954, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘Chou En-lai’s visit to India and Burma’, 8 pages.

15 – August 1, 1954, 40 pages.

Supplement: ‘The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indo-China’ and ‘Foreign Minister Chou En-lai’s Statement at the Final Session of the Geneva Conference’, 8 pages.

23 – December 1, 1954, 36 pages.

1955

9 – May 1, 1955, 42 pages.

Supplement: ‘Resolutions and Appeal of the Conference of Asian Countries, New Delhi, April 10, 1955’, 8 pages.

Supplement: ‘Disaster strikes the Tachens – The report of a Red Cross investigation into crimes committed by Chiang Kai-shek’s troops during their withdrawal from the Tachens and other islands, April 7, 1955’, 20 pages.

23 – December 1, 1955. Issue itself not yet available.

Supplement: ‘Documents of the Sixth Plenary Session (Enlarged) of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’, 24 pages.

1956

1 – January 1, 1956, 48 pages.

2 – January 16, 1956, 48 pages.

Supplement: ‘Joint Statement of the Government of the PRC and the Government of the German Democratic Republic’, December 25, 1955, 4 pages.

3 – February 1, 1956, 44 pages.

Supplement: ‘Chinese Foreign Ministry Statement on Sino-American Talks’, January 18, 1956, 4 pages.

Supplement: ‘Chinese Foreign Ministry Statement on Sino-American Talks’, January 24, 1956, 4 pages.

4 – February 16, 1956 [Issue itself not yet available.]

Supplement: ‘Political Report by Chou Enlai at the Second Session of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference’, 16 pages.

1957

14 – July 16, 1957. [Issue itself not yet available.]

Supplement: ‘Report on the Work of the Government’, by Chou En-lai, 40 pages. Delivered on June 26, 1957 at the Fourth Session of the First National People’s Congress.

16 – August 16, 1957, 44 pages.

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Art, Literature, Music and Culture in Socialist China

Posted on 20/06/2020 by Michael

Workers’ Meeting

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Art, Literature, Music and Culture in Socialist China

Culture and Education in New China, includes Report on Cultural and Educational Work by Kuo Mo-jo and six other reports, 110 pages. (Peking: FLP, n.d. [but either late 1950 or early 1951]).

China’s New Literature and Art, Chou Yang, FLP, Peking, 1954, 162 pages. (Later on, during the GPCR, Chou Yang himself became a target of the revolution.)

Folk arts of New China, FLP, Peking, 1954, 93 pages.

To Trumpet Bourgeois Literature and Art is to Restore Capitalism — A Repudiation of Chou Yang’s Reactionary Fallacy Adulating the ‘Renaissance’, the ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘Critical Realism’ of the Bourgeoisie, by the Shanghai Writing Group for Revolutionary Mass Criticism, (Peking: FLP, 1971), 53 pages.

Chinese for beginners, FLP, Peking, 1976, 201 pages.

A Glance at China’s Culture, by Chai Pien, 106 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1975).

Painting

Selection of Artistic Works by Shanghai Workers, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 1974, 91 pages. A wonderful collection of paintings, with captions in Chinese.

Shanghai workers’ art selection, a collection of a couple hundred wonderful Chinese political paintings from the later stage of the Cultural Revolution. (Peking: 1975), 110 pages.

Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County, compiled by the Fine Arts Collection Section of the Cultural Group under the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, as exhibited in Peking in 1973. (Peking: People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 1976), 85 pages.

Graphic Art by Workers in Shanghai, Yangchuan and Luta, FLP, Peking, 1976, 83 pages.

An article about these paintings appeared in China Reconstructs magazine, Jan. 1974, pp. 17-20

Wood Cuts and Paper Cuts

Chinese paper cuts, supplement to China Reconstructs, No. 12, 1955, 24 pages.

The East is Red: Paper Cuts of the Chinese Revolution, with text by Lincoln Bergman and paper cuts by members of a People’s Commune in Fatshan, 56 pages. (San Francisco: People’s Press, 1972)

Papercuts – Tigers, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in color, 7 pages.

Papercuts – Karst Landscape, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in color, 4 pages.

Papercuts – A Cock Crows at Midnight, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in black, 8 pages.

Papercuts – Table Tennis, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in red, 8 pages.

Papercuts – Collective Farm, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in red, 8 pages.

Papercuts – Sword Training, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in red, 10 pages.

Bookmarks – with fish and bird images, n.d. (probably from the 1970s), in colour, 9 pages.

Sculpture

Rent Collection Courtyard: Sculptures of Oppression and Revolt, probably the most famous set of works of art in China in the Maoist era. This is a great collection of photographs of these wonderful and emotionally powerful sculptures. (Peking: FLP, 1968), 88 pages.

Introduction to Rent Collection Courtyard, a small pamphlet that accompanied the ‘strip’ version of the sculptures. (Peking: FLP, 1968) 19 pages.

Wrath of the Serfs: A Group of Life-sized Clay Sculptures, powerful scenes of figures showing the pre-revolutionary Tibetan system of exploitation. (Peking: FLP, 1976), 88 pages. (Partial scanner distortion on sheet 17.)

A discussion of this exhibit appeared in Chinese Literature magazine, February 1976, pp. 109-117.

Graphic Histories and Literature (Picture-Stories)

The Old Messenger, by Chun Ching, drawings by Ting Pin-tseng. (Peking: FLP, 1956), 72 pages.

Immortal Hero Yang Ken-sze, story by Wang Hao about a real-life hero in the Chinese People’s Volunteers in the Korean War. Drawings by Ho Yu-chih. (Peking: FLP, 1965), 3rd ed., 140 pages.

Red Women’s Detachment, picture-story by Liang Hsin about the slave girl Chiung-hua on Hainan Island in 1930 who escapes and joins the Red Army. Drawings by Li Tzu-shun. (Peking: FLP, 1966), 148 pages.

Tunnel Warfare, picture-story adapted by Che Mei and Pi Lei about the clever tactics of the masses and people’s militia in Hopei Province during China’s War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945). (Peking: FLP, 1972), 164 pages.

Norman Bethune in China, a wonderful, inspiring work featuring fine ink drawings on every page. The adaptation is by Chung Chih-cheng, and the illustrations are by Hsu Jung-chu, Hsu Yung, Ku Lien-tang and Wang Yi-sheng. (Peking: FLP, 1975), 124 pages.

Storms on the Chinkiang Docks, a story of a struggle on the docks during the revolutionary war. Illustrations by Hu Po-tsung and Wang Meng-chi. (Peking: FLP, 1975), 88 pages.

Flying Eagle Cliff, adapted by the Kwangtung People’s Publishing House, drawings by Kuang Ming-yin, Tso Yi, Liu Wei-hsiung and Chung Hsien-chang. It is not clear if there is a historical basis to this story, or if it is just literature. Either way, it is a fine and moving story which is especially good at bringing out that the Communists can’t do what the masses must do themselves; to arrest the class enemies before the masses are aroused would be useless. (Peking: FLP, 1975), 164 pages.

Selections of Afro-Asian People’s Anti-Imperialist Caricatures, Afro-Asian Journalists’ Association, Peking, 1967, 196 pages.

Literature

The sun shines over the Sankgan River, Ting Ling, Stalin Prize 1951, FLP, Peking, 1954, 346 pages.

The Hurricane, Chou Li-po, Stalin Prize 1951, FLP, Peking, 1955, 409 pages.

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction, by Lu Hsun. (Peking: FLP, 1964), 2nd edition, 524 pages.

Lu Hsun – Great Revolutionary, Thinker and Writer, a loose-leaf collection of color paintings, (FLP: 1975), 36 pages. English:

Selected Works of Lu Hsun, Vol. 1, (Peking: FLP, 1956), 488 pages.

Selected Works of Lu Hsun, Vol. 2, (Peking: FLP, 1957), 378 pages.

Selected Works of Lu Hsun, Vol. 3, (Peking: FLP, 1964), 358 pages.

Selected Works of Lu Hsun, Vol. 4, (Peking: FLP, 1960), 326 pages.

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, by Lu Hsun. (Peking: FLP, 1972), 282 pages.

Old Tales Retold, by Lu Hsun. A collection of 8 tales from 1922-1935. (Peking: FLP, 1972), 150 pages.

The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Hsun. Probably his most famous work. (Peking: FLP, 1972), 5th edition, 82 pages.

Dawn Blossoms Plucked At Dusk, by Lu Hsun, a collection of essays written in 1926 and first published in 1928. (Peking: FLP, 1976), 138 pages.

Wall of Bronze, by Liu Ching, a novel of the War of Liberation. (Peking: FLP, 1954), 300 pages.

The Unquenchable Spark, FLP, Peking, 1963, 153 pages. The stories in this volume are selected and translated from the fourth volume of ‘The spark that started the prairie fire’, a collection of reminiscences of the Chinese Revolution, published in June 1961by the People’s Literature Publishing Houses, Peking.

The Builders, by Liu Ching, a novel about the struggles over mutual aid, co-operatives, and socialist collectivization in the Chinese countryside. (Peking: FLP, 1964), 588 pages.

Wild Bull Village, Chinese short stories, Ai Wu and others. FLP, Peking, 1965, 108 pages.

The Man Who Sold a Ghost: Chinese Tales of the 3rd-6th Centuries. (Peking: FLP, 1958), 190 pages.

The Battle of Sangkumryung, by Lu Chu-kuo. Novel about a major battle won by Chinese People’s Volunteers in Korea. (Peking: FLP, 1961), 176 pages.

The Seeds and Other Stories, 14 stories by mostly young writers written during the Cultural Revolution. (Peking: FLP, 1972), 204 pages.

City Cousin and Other Stories, 8 stories, mostly by amateurs, about life in China at this time. (Peking: FLP, 1972), 204 pages. [3,685 KB]

Bright Clouds, by Hao Jan, 8 short stories. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 162 pages.

Yenan Seeds and Other Stories, 6 short stories by various writers. (Peking: FLP, 1976), 156 pages.

The Making of a Peasant Doctor, by Yang Hsiao, a novel. (Peking: FLP, 1976), 228 pages.

The Golden Road, Hao Ran, a story of one village in the uncertain days after land reform, first published in Chinese in 1972, (Beijing: FLP, 1981), 408 pages.

Poetry

Mao Tse-tung Poems, by Mao Tse-tung. (Peking: FLP, 1976), 1st edition, 72 pages.

Wild Grass, all 23 prose poems of Lu Xun which were written in 1924-26. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 82 pages.

Mountains Crimsoned with Flowers, by Li Ying, 16 poems. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 44 pages.

Battle of the Hsisha Archipelago (Reportage in Verse), by Chang Yung-mei (Peking: FLP, 1975), 50 pages.

Music

Songs and Dances of the Chinese Youth, (Peking: FLP, 1959), 62 pages.

Historical Revolutionary Songs, (Peking: FLP, 1971), 28 pages.

Theatre and Film

On Stanislavsky’s ‘System’, by the Shanghai Revolutionary Mass Criticism Writing Group, (Peking: FLP, 1969), small pamphlet format, 47 pages.

A Vicious Motive, Despicable Tricks – A Criticism of M. Antonioni’s Anti-China Film China, by Renmin Ribao Commentator, Jan. 30, 1974. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 23 pages.

Opera

On the Revolution of Peking Opera, by Chiang Ching [Jiang Qing] and others, (Peking: FLP, 1968), 76 pages. Chiang Ching’s speech only (7 pages).

Red Detachment of Women. This is the most famous of all the model revolutionary Peking Operas created during the Mao era in China. It depicts the liberation of a peasant girl in Hainan Island and her role in the Chinese Communist Party. It is adapted from the original novel based on the true stories of the all-female Special Company of the 2nd Independent Division of the Chinese Red Army, first formed in May 1931.

Video: (in Chinese) Part 1 [54:51 minutes]; Part 2 [45:29 minutes];

The Red Lantern, a model Peking Opera on a contemporary revolutionary theme.

The Red Lantern: May 1970 Script, Hsinhua News Service, Aug. 6, 1970, 18 double pages in teletype font.

Shachiapang, a model Peking Opera on a contemporary revolutionary theme.

The Story of the Modern Peking Opera Shachiapang, illustrated with drawings, 52 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1972).

Shachiapang – Model Peking Opera on Contemporary Revolutionary Theme, screen play with photographs. (Colombo, Ceylon: Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau, 1967), 86 pages.

Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. This is one of the 8 model works of revolutionary Peking Opera created during the Mao era. It is based on an actual event that took place in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War. A young communist reconnaissance team soldier, Yang Zirong, disguised himself as a bandit to infiltrate a local gang, eventually helping the main revolutionary force to destroy the band.

Video: (in Chinese) Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy [1 hour, 58 minutes]

Libretto [Script] in English, October 1969, issued by Hsinhua News Agency (June 20, 1970), 22 double pages.

Miscellaneous Arts

Suzhou Embroidery, a fine hard-cover volume in Chinese with some beautiful examples of art from the Cultural Revolution era. (Shanghai: 1976), 78 pages.

Bookmarks in the shape of leaves with frog designs, non-political but artistically appealing bookmarks from China, probably from the 1970s, 7 pages.

Acrobatics and Sports

Chinese Acrobatics, photo book with introduction and captions in English, French and Swahili, (Peking: FLP, 1974), 126 pages.

Tourism

The West Lake Companion, about the famous tourist area in Hangzhou [Hangchow], 104 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1958).

Mount Omei, about Mount Omei (or Emei) in Sichuan Province. This is a collection of black and white photographs prepared by the Szechwan Provincial Art Gallery, with captions in Chinese, Russian and English, Szechwan People’s Publishing House, 1959, 30 pages.

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