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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 1 – January-February, 186 pages. Contents include;
The October Revolution and the task of building a Socialist culture – Chou Yang
A journey into strange lands – Li Ju-chen
Poems – Emi Siao
- 2 – March-April, 160 pages. Contents include;
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
- 4 – July-August, 160 pages. Contents include;
The Peacock Maiden, a folk tale
On the Tibetan Highland (portion of a novel) – Hsu Huai-chung
Indian literature in China – Chi Hsien-lin
- 5 – September-October, 158 pages. Contents include:
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
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- 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
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- Supplement: ‘Statement of Chou En-lai … on the situation in the Taiwan Straits area’, and two related documents, 8 pages.
1959:
- 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
- 10 – October, 168 pages.
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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 Art – Mao 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:
- 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:
- 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
- 7-8 – July-August, 160 pages. Contents include:
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
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- 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:
- 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’
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- 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’
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- 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 China – Lin 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’
- 11-12 – November-December, 178 pages. Contents include:
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:
- 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
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- 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
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- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
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
- 11-12 – November-December, 132 pages. Contents include:
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 1 – January, 134 pages. Three poems – Mao Tse-tung
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:
- 1 – January (Not yet available)
- 2 – February (Not yet available)
- 3 – March (Not yet available)
- 4 – April (Not yet available)
- 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
- 6 – June (Not yet available)
- 7 – July, 140 pages. Contents include:
The cinema: ‘The Effendi’, a new cartoon film – Ge Baoquan
- 8 – August (Not yet available)
- 9 – September, 142 pages. Contents include:
Introducing classical Chinese literature: Fiction in the Qing Dynasty – Shi Changlu
Selections from the ‘Strange tales of Liaozhu’ – Pu Songling
Five old Chinese fables
- 9 – September (Not yet available)
- 10 – October, 144 pages. Contents include:
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:
- 1 – January (Not yet available)
- 2 – February (Not yet available)
- 3 – March (Not yet available)
- 4 – April (Not yet available)
- 5 – May, 148 pages. Contents include:
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
- 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)