Peking Review was the weekly political and informative magazine published between 1958 and 1978. With issue No 1 of 1979 the magazine was renamed Beijing Review, the new name bringing with it a new direction in the People’s Republic of China and was an open statement of the reintroduction of capitalism in the erstwhile Socialist Republic.

Topics and issues addressed throughout 1961 included:

• Sino-Soviet Solidarity
• China-Burma friendly relations
• Hands off Cuba!
• Two stages in Chinese Revolution
• China’s policy of Peaceful Coexistence
• Sino-Albanian Mutual Aid and Co-operation
• China condemns imperialism for murder of Lumumba
• China’s industrial progress
• state-monopoly capitalism of Old China
• 26th World Table Tennis Championships
• commemorating the Paris Commune
• 100 Schools Contend
• the Peasant Question in the Democratic Revolution
• ‘All out support for Cuba!’
• Kennedy lets the cat out of the bag
• State farms in China
• US manoeuvres in South Korea and South Vietnam
• Yugoslav agriculture on the capitalist road
• 40th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party
• Yugoslavia’s ‘Self-management of enterprises’
• fresh victory over imperialism and colonialism
• ‘September 18th’ – Never again!
• Lu Hsun – Great Writer-Revolutionary
• the 1911 Revolution – 50th Anniversary
• US Imperialism – biggest international exploiter
• Tibet forges ahead
• greetings to the 22nd Congress of the CPSU
• heroic Algeria forges ahead
• China stands foursquare behind Cuba
• heroic Albania strides ahead
• China warns against US aggression in South Vietnam

There’s an index in No. 26-27 for items to that time and another in No. 52 for the second part of the year.