US-China People’s Friendship Association (UCPFA)

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US-China People’s Friendship Association (UCPFA)

The U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association was formed on a national basis in 1974, largely under the impetus of revolutionary-minded Americans who were enthusiastic about the Chinese Revolution and especially Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which had recently occurred in China. (The earlier regional organization, the New York U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association began in August 1971, and other regional groups also started from around that time forward.)

After Mao’s death, and during the following years as it gradually became more and more obvious that China was fast changing from a socialist country back into a capitalist one, the composition of the USCPFA qualitatively changed, and the tone of the political materials produced by it strongly shifted away from sympathy for world proletarian revolution and into apologetics for the new bourgeois regime in China. This is already apparent in some of the materials below from 1977-1979.

From 1974 until 1979 the USCPFA published a magazine called New China, which featured articles on Chinese revolutionary politics as well as many on Chinese culture. Beginning in 1981 it began publishing a new magazine, U.S.-China Review which of course has had a very different political line.

During the early more revolutionary-minded period, the USCPFA also issued a number of pamphlets on important political questions.

[The introduction (with the historical background) as well as all the material on this page were provided by the comrades at bannedthought. We thank them for their work.]

US-China People’s Friendship Association

In China, managers work!, text by the U.S.-China Friendship Association of the San Francisco Bay Area, with many well drawn cartoon illustrations and photographs, United Front Press (San Francisco), c. 1971, 24 pages.

The Taiwan Question: roadblock to friendship, USCPFA Pamphlet Series Number 1, August 1975, 16 pages.

Opium and China: New China kicked the habit, USCPFA Pamphlet Series Number 2, August 1975, 24 pages.

Chou En-lai: Conversations with Americans, by Bill Hinton, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]

Black man in the New China, by John Oliver Killens, USCPFA China Reprint Series, August 1976, 24 pages.

Deep roots in two countries, by James Veneris, USCPFA China Reprint Series, 1977, 14 pages.

Down in the Kailan Mines — Chinese Workers: Past and Present, by Jack Chen and Janet Goldwasser, USCPFA China Reprint Series, n.d. (c. 1977), 24 pages.

From A-bombs to Agriculture, by Joan Hinton, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]

Remembering Koji Ariyoshi, by Hugh Deane, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]

Freedom Railway, by Martin Bailey, USCPFA China Reprint Series. [Not yet available.]

Americans talk about US-China relations, USCPFA China Reprint Series. [Not yet available.]

They all look so healthy! – an introduction to health care in the People’s Republic of China, USCPFA China Series Number 6, August 1978, 40 pages.

China and Indochina: The realities behind the headlines, pamphlet issued by the New York chapter of the USCPFA, March 8, 1979, 24 pages.

China and SALT II: Questions and Answers, Educational Pamphlet No. 1 of the New York chapter of the USCPFA, n.d. (but probably late 1979), 6 pages.

Refugees from Viet Nam: China’s View, Educational Pamphlet No. 2 of the New York chapter of the USCPFA, n.d. (but probably late 1979), 6 pages.

New China Magazine (1974-1979)

1974

Preliminary Concept Issue, 36 pages.

1975

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 48 pages.

Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1975), 48 pages.

1976

Vol. 1, No. 4 (January 1976), 48 pages.

Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 1976), 48 pages.

Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 1976), 48 pages.

Vol. 2, No. 3 (December 1976), 48 pages.

1977

Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1977), 48 pages.

Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 48 pages.

Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall 1977), 48 pages.

Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 1977), 36 pages. 1978 Calendar pull-out supplement with this issue, with very nice wood-block prints (pp. 19-26)

1978

Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 48 pages.

Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1978), 48 pages.

1979

Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1979), 48 pages.

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New York U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association (1971-1974)

China and US newsletter

Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 1972), 4 pages.

Miscellaneous materials

October 1st Celebration of the 24th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, mimeographed program from the 1973 meeting in New York City, 11 pages.

American Friends of China in Europe

China Report – bulletin of the AFCE

Vol. 1, No. 1 (January-February 1973), 4 pages.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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