Peking Review / Beijing Review

Whole Issues & Individual Articles, Mostly from the Mao Era


           

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      Starting on March 4, 1958 and continuing to the present, the People’s Republic of China has published a weekly English-language news magazine originally called “Peking Review”, and beginning with issue #1 in 1979 renamed “Beijing Review” after the Pinyin transliteration system was adopted for foreign-language publications. This archive is a collection of many of the more important articles on politics, philosophy, and political economy that appeared in that magazine, mostly from the Mao era. While some of these articles sound somewhat stylized and doctrinaire today, there is still much of value in them for those who read them carefully.

      In addition we now have 987 entire issues available in PDF image format. About 30 of these were prepared by the IRTR Cultural Revolution Archive, which no longer exists. About 60 more of the PDF issues were once posted on the official Beijing Review website in China. And more than 850 additional issues have been scanned and posted by us and our friends. (Many of the PDF scans have omitted the pages which were left purposely blank on the back of full page photos of Mao and others.) All the issues for the period of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution are now posted, and all the issues for the entire 16-year period from 1966 through 1981 are now posted. We are in the process of posting hundreds of additional issues for the 1959-1965 and 1982-1991 periods. We are posting not only issues from the Maoist era but also a great many from the years after Mao’s death in September 1976, which is the period of transition back to capitalism. We think there are many valuable negative lessons to be learned from this period about how Deng Xiaoping and the other capitalist-roaders lied to the masses about what they were doing, and used phony pseudo-“Marxist” arguments to supposedly justify it. These are the sorts of lies and distortions that people need to learn to see through!

      All the individual articles are complete and unaltered. However, in a few cases non-essential photographs accompanying the articles have been omitted; their reproduction quality is often not high in any case. The articles are unsigned unless otherwise noted. At around the beginning of 1967, during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Chinese editors adopted the practice of putting quotations from Mao, Lenin, Marx, Engels and Stalin in bold type, and this practice continued into the late 1970s. Where this was done in the original we have followed the same convention here.

      There are now 657 individual articles in this archive (not counting thousands more in the PDF entire issues), but we will be gradually adding many more articles, especially from the Cultural Revolution period (often dated from 1966-1976). For most years the magazine included two subject indexes, usually in issues #26 and #52, which will help you locate the articles you are interested in. We have also prepared an overall subject index for the individual articles we have already posted. If you know of specific individual articles you would like to see included in this archive soon, or have other suggestions, or if you find scanning errors that should be corrected, please let us know at:   webmaster@massline.org

      A small red star () next to an issue indicates that all the articles from that issue have been posted and are individually listed in the overall indexes. (At present the articles in the whole issues in PDF format are not individually listed in those indexes.)

      Many of the PDF articles and issues added after Jan. 1, 2012 are in a searchable PDF format. To use this feature right-click on the open PDF document and select FIND.

      There are a number of issues of Peking Review which we do not have access to. If you are willing to donate, loan, or sell any of the following issues to us, please let us know! (We also have many duplicate issues which we would be happy to trade for the issues we do not have.)

Summary of the Peking Review Issues We Have and Those We Need to Acquire for Posting
Year(s) Issues Already
Posted (PDF) 		Issues We Have, But Not
Yet Scanned & Posted		 Issues We Need For
Scanning & Posting
1958 #1, 17, 25 None All others
1959 #1-15, 40 Many ?
1960 #49/50 [Combined issue] Many ?
1961 #26/27 [Combined issue] Many ?
1962 #18 Many ?
1963 #10/11, 41 Many ?
1964 #46 Many ?
1965 #9-52 None #1-8
1966-
1981		 All None None
1982 #1-34, 42 All others None
1983 #1-16, 18, 39 Some #17, 19-38, 40-52
1984 #26 Many ?
1985 #1, 6, 12, 18 Many ?
1986 #5 Many ?
1987 #2, 24 Many ?
1988 #11 Many ?
1989 #14 Many ?
1990 #14 Many ?
1991 #6 Many ?
1992 &
Later		 Some None Most
                 * Defective copy; a better copy is needed for re-scanning.

      Many additional articles from Peking Review during the Mao era are being transcribed and posted on the WENGEWANG.ORG site. They seem to be especially focusing on the early years of the Cultural Revolution and on some of the more important articles from each year. The index page for the articles now available there is at: http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=17284&page=1&toread=1. With their permission we are gradually copying over the articles to this site, and adjusting them to our format. Our appreciation to WENGEWANG.ORG for all the work they have done!

      The Marxist Internet Archive is, with our permission, copying over the articles and entire issues we post here to their site. See: http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/index.htm. (They have slightly changed the appearance of the articles to match their standard, and are usually not including the pictures which accompany the articles.) Most of the articles and issues listed below are now also posted there. In addition they have posted some individual articles which are not yet available here, including:

      The English edition of Peking Review/Beijing Review was launched on March 4, 1958. Editions in French, Spanish, Japanese and German began in March 1963. In the late 1970s an Arabic edition was begun. The German edition is named Peking Rundschau. Some articles and entire issues of the Spanish edition, which is called Pekin Informa, are now available in the Spanish section of the Marxist Internet Archive at: http://www.marx.org/espanol/tematica/china/pekininforma/index.htm.



Peking Review Articles — Listed by Date of Publication

[A SUBJECT INDEX is also available.]



SUBJECT INDEX of Peking Review Articles.

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