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Various commentaries from outside the country by people who have lived in China or studied Chinese society, stretching across different topics and historical periods – some are more friendly to the revolutionary cause than others.

The Battle For Asia, Edgar Snow, Random House, New York, 1941, 431 pages.

The Birth of New China, a sketch of one hundred years 1842-1942, Arthur Clegg, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1943, 144 pages.

What we saw in China, by 15 Americans, who participated in the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions in October 1952, Weekly Guardian Associates, NY, 1952, 68 pages.

Through People’s China in a Friendship Train, by Fernand Leriche, World Federation of Trade Unions, England, 1953, 68 pages. Report of a WFTU delegation from 21 countries visiting China by train.

The People have Strength, Rewi Alley, Peking, 1954, 281 pages. Sequel to ‘Yo Banfa’.

The Great Road – the Life and Times of Chu Teh, Agnes Smedley, Monthly review Press, New York, 1956, 461 pages.

The Atlantic, a Special Issue on Red China – The first ten years, December 1959, 192 pages.

What’s really happening in China?, by Felix Greene, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1959, 68 pages.

The world belongs to all, by Liao Hung-ying and Derek Bryan, privately printed, n.d. (but from 1959 or shortly after), 32 pages. The impressions of a husband and wife who re-visited China in 1959.

Mao and the Chinese Revolution, Jerome Ch’en, Oxford University Press, London, 1965, 419 pages. With 37 poems by Mao Tse-tung.

Mao Tse-tung in opposition 1927-1935, John E Rue, Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University Press, California, 1966, 387 pages.

The Taiping Rebellion, history and documents, Volume 1: History, Franz H Michael, University of Washington Press, 1966, 244 pages.

Window on Shanghai, Letters from China, Sophia Knight, Andre Deutsch, London, 1967, 256 pages.

This is Communist China, by the staff of Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, edited by Robert Trumbull, Van Rees Press, New York, 1968, 274 pages.

A curtain of ignorance, Felix Greene, Jonathan Cape, London, 1968, 340 pages.

The Great Power Struggle in China, Asia Research Centre, Hong Kong, 1969, 503 pages.

China and Ourselves – Explorations and revisions by a new generation, edited by Bruce Douglass and Ross Terrill, Beacon Press, Boston, 1969, 249 pages.

Modern Drama from Communist China, edited by Walter and Meserve, New York University Press, New York, 1970, 368 pages.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution and Foreign Policy, Daniel Tretiak, ASG Monograph No. 2, Westinghouse Electric Corporation Advanced Studies Group, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1970, 36 pages.

The Organization and Support of Scientific Research and Development in Mainland China, Yuan-li Wu and Robert B Sheeks, Praeger, New York, 1970, 592 pages.

A divorce trial in China, by Felix Greene, New England Free Press, 1970, 16 pages. Originally published as a chapter in Greene’s book Awakened China: The country Americans don’t know (1961)

The Miracles of Chairman Mao – A compendium of devotional literature 1966-1970, edited by George Urban, Tom Stacey, London, 1971, 182 pages. (Introduction missing.)

The Morning Deluge – Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Revolution 1983-1954, Han Suyin, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1972, 571 pages.

Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution, Tai Sung An, Pegasus, 1972, 211 pages.

Experiment without precedent: some Quaker observations on China today, report of an American Friends Service Committee Delegation’s visit to China, May 1972, 64 pages.

China: revolution and health, by Mark Selden, Health/PAC Bulletin, No. 47, December 1972, published by the Health Policy Advisory Center, New York, 20 pages.

People’s China in 1973: A Group Report, by Scott Nearing, Helen K. Nearing, Dr. Jerome Davis, Howard Frazier, Hugh B. Hester and Bess Horowitz, Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., Woodmont, Conn.,1973, 28 pages.

The Chinese Economy, by Jan Deleyne, (1973, orig. French version 1971), 216 pages. Talks about the Chinese economy before, during, and after the initial phase (late 1960s) of the Cultural Revolution.

Chiang Ch’ing – The emergence of a revolutionary political leader, Dwan L Tai, Exposition Press, New York, 1974, 222 pages.

Unite the many, defeat the few: China’s revolutionary line in foreign affairs, by Jack A. Smith, Guardian newspaper (U.S.) pamphlet, 1974, 40 pages. Originally a series of articles in the Guardian in late 1972 and early 1973.

Education in the People’s Republic of China, by Fred L. Pincus, Research Group One Report No. 20, July 1974, 32 pages.

Party, Army and Masses in China, A Marxist interpretation of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, Livio Maitan, NLB, London, 1976, 373 pages.

Wind in the tower, Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Revolution – 1949-1965, Han Suyin, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1976, 404 pages.

The People of Taihang – An Anthology of Family Histories, edited by Sidney Greenblatt, International Arts and Science Press, White Plains, New York, 1976, 305 pages.

Economic planning in China, by Geoff Mason, New Zealand-China Society, 1976, 60 pages.

China and the Nuclear Question, by Joan Donley, New Zealand-China Society, 2nd revised ed. 1976, 20 pages.

Why is China not at the Olympiques? [sic] / Pourquoi la Chine n’est pas aux Olympiques?, by the Canada-China Society and the Amitiés Québec-Chine, 1976, 16 pages. In both English and French.

China’s Foreign Policy – an outline, compiled by Clark Kissinger, August 1976, 60 pages.

Women’s Liberation in China, Claudie Broyelle, Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1977, 174 pages.

Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China, the China book project, edited by Stephen Andors, ME Sharpe, White Plains, New York, 1977, 403 pages.

Comrade Chiang Ch’ing, Roxanne Witke, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977, 549 pages.

Revolutionary Diplomacy, Chinese Foreign Policy and the United Front Doctrine, JD Armstrong, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977, 251 pages.

The Politics of Revolutionary China, British and Irish Communist Organisation, Belfast, 1977?, 44 pages.

China since Mao, Neil J Burton and Charles Bettleheim, Monthly review Press, New York, 1978, 130 pages.

Mao Tsetung’s immortal contributions, Bob Avakian, RCP Publications, Chicago, 1979, 342 pages.

Chairman Mao – Education of the Proletariat, Don Chean Chu, Philosophical Library, New York, 1980, 478 pages.

Edgar Snow’s China, a personal account of the Chinese Revolution compiled from the writings of Edgar Snow, Lois Wheeler Snow, Random House, New York, 1981, 284 pages.

Science in Contemporary China, edited by Leo A Orleans, Stanford University Press, California, 1980, 599 pages.

Science and Socialist Construction in China, Xu Liangying and Fan Dainian, The China book project, ME Sharpe, New York, 1982, 225 pages.

Marxism, Maoism, and Utopianism, Eight Essays, Maurice Meisner, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1982, 255 pages.

Shenfan, the continuing revolution in a Chinese village, William Hinton, Random House, New York, 1983, 785 pages.

Red and Expert – A case study of Chinese science in the Cultural revolution, David Wade Chambers, Deakin University Press, Victoria, Australia, 1984, 153 pages.

Ninth Heaven to Ninth Hell – The History of a Noble Chinese Experiment, Qin Huailu, Barricade Books, New York, 1995, 665 pages.

Documents on the Rape of Nanking, edited by Timothy Brook, Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1999, 301 pages.

Mao – a Life, Phillip Short, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1999, 782 pages.

The Nanjing Massacre, a Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame, Honda Katsuichi, ME Sharpe, New York, 1999, 367 pages.

The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography, edited by Joshua A Fogel, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000, 248 pages.

Nanking 1937 – Memory and Healing, edited by Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella and David Liu, ME Sharpe, New York, 2002, 278 pages.

Marxist Philosophy in China – From Qu Qiubai to Mao Zedong, 1923–1945, Nick Knight, Springer, The Netherlands, 2005, 245 pages.

Revolution in the Highlands – China’s Jinggangshan Base Area, Stephen C Averill, Rowman and Littlefield, New York, 2006, 451 pages.

Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China – The Return of the Political Novel, Jeffrey Kinkley, Stanford University Press, 2007, 305 pages.

Mao Zedong, a political and intellectual portrait, Maurice Meisner, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, 222 pages.

Rise of the Red Engineers – The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class, Joel Andreas, Stanford University Press, California, 2009, 344 pages.

Was Mao really a monster? The academic response to Chang and Halliday’s ‘Mao – the unknown story’, edited by Gregor Benton and Lin Chun, Routledge, Abingdon, 2010, 199 pages.

The Wounds, Norman Bethune, speeches given in Canada in the 1930s, Anvil press, Ontario, ND, 35 pages.

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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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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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