Articles from Peking Review During the Mao Era

      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. 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 have a number of entire issues available in PDF format.

      All the 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. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution years (peak period: 1966-1969) 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.

      So far there are over 180 articles in this archive, but we will gradually be adding many more, especially from the Cultural Revolution period. We will also be adding a contents page for each issue (which however will not precisely follow the varying formats in the original magazines). If you know of specific articles you would like to see included in this archive, or have other suggestions, or if you find scanning errors that should be corrected, please let us know at:   webmaster@massline.org

      Additional notes: The Marxist Internet Archive is, with our permission, copying over the articles 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.) Almost all of the articles below are now also posted there. In addition they have posted three articles which are not yet available here:

• “Premier Pham Van Dong Supports Chinese Government Proposal” (Letter to Chou En-lai), from 1963, issue #34.
• Chou En-lai: “Speech at the Grand Banquet Celebrating [the] Second Anniversary of Sihanouk’s Coming to China”, from 1972, issue #12.
• Chin Hua: “Human Cognizance and Utilization of Energy Resources is Never-Ending — Refutation of ‘Exhaustion of Energy Resources’”, from 1976, issue #4.

      Some articles and entire issues of the Spanish edition of this weekly news magazine, 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.]

• 1958 — Vol. 1:
  • #1 — March 4, 1958:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [2,792 KB]
• 1959 — Vol. 2:
  • #40 — October 6, 1959:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [6,149 KB]
• 1960 — Vol. 3:
  • #49-50 — December 13, 1960:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [6,814 KB]
• 1961 — Vol. 4:
  • #26-27 — July 7, 1961:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,427 KB]
• 1962 — Vol. 5:
  • #18 — May 4, 1962:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,353 KB]
• 1963 — Vol. 6:
  • #10-11 — March 15, 1963:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [10,217 KB]
• 1964 — Vol. 7:
  • #46 — November 13, 1964:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,659 KB]
• 1965 — Vol. 8:
  • #9 — February 26, 1965:
    • Contents
    • “Johnson Administration in a Dilemma”, editorial from “Renmin Ribao” about the U.S. escalation of its imperialist war against Vietnam.
    • “Industrial Management in China — How China’s Socialist State-Owned Industrial Enterprises Are Managed”, by Ma Wen-kuei. This article shows some of the steps toward economic democracy and worker’s management of industry even before the Cultural Revolution led to greater changes along these lines.
    • “Facts on File: Why U.S. Opposes a Return to the Gold Standard”, by Shih Yuan.
    • “Continued Weakening of U.S. Economic Position in the Capitalist World: Major economic statistics of European countries and the United States”.
  • #36 — September 3, 1965:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,139 KB]
• 1966 — Vol. 9:
  • #1 — January 1, 1966:
    • Contents
    • “Welcoming 1966 — The First Year of China’s Third Five-Year Plan — New Year’s Day Message”, from “Renmin Ribao”.
    • “The Leaders of the C.P.S.U. are Betrayers of the Declaration and the Statement”, by the Editorial Department of “Renmin Ribao”.
    • “How Low Can They Sink!”, by “Renmin Ribao” Commentator. Includes the sidebar “U.S.S.R., U.S. Gang Up to Slander China”.
    • “Building an Independent National Economy: How China Raises Funds for National Construction”, by Li Cheng-jui.
  • #2 — January 7, 1966:
    • Contents
    • “Vice-Premier Chen Yi: A New and Great Anti-U.S. Revolutionary Storm is Approaching”, replies to “Akahata” Correspondent. Discusses U.S. aggression in Vietnam; the possibility of a U.S. attack on China; false rumors that China is slowing the passage of Soviet aid to Vietnam; and the Chinese economy.
    • “Work-Study Schools: A Significant Development in China’s Educational Revolution”, by Liang Nien.
    • “South Vietnamese People’s Five Years of victorious Struggle”. A summation of an important N.F.L. communique.
  • #3 — January 14, 1966:  [MASSLINE.ORG doesn’t have this issue.]
  • #4 — January 21, 1966:
    • Contents
    • “P.L.A. Conference on Political Work”.
    • “Foreign Ministry Statement: China Condemns Towering U.S. Crimes in South Vietnam”.
    • “Genocide in South Vietnam: U.S. Intensifies Atrocities”. [Includes a photo spread under the title “Genocide!”.]
    • “Bertrand Russell Denounces U.S. War Criminals”.
    • “Foreign Ministry Statement: Strongly Denounces Wanton U.S. Bombing of Laos”.
    • “Johnson’s Challenge: Comments on U.S. President’s State of the Union Message”, Renmin Ribao editorial.
    • “Asia, Africa and Latin America: The Tide of the People’s Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Struggle is Irresistible”.
    • “Report from Havana: The First Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples’ Solidarity Conference”.
    • “U.S.S.R. Refuses to Clear Up Anti-China Rumours”. About the false rumors spread by the Soviets and their allies that China was obstructing the passage of Soviet arms through China to Vietnam.
    • “A.A.J.A. Upholds Anti-Imperialist Banner”. About the Afro-Asian Journalists’ Association being forced to moved out of Indonesia after the Rightist military takeover there.
  • #5 — January 28, 1966:
    • Contents
    • “John Administration’s Self-Exposure”, Renmin Ribao editorial. About the phony U.S. “peace offensive” in Vietnam.
    • “Be a Conscious Revolutionary — More on ‘All Our Work Is for the Revolution’”, Renmin Ribao editorial. Includes a sidebar “Discussion on ‘All Our Work Is for the Revolution’”.
    • “In the Cultural Revolution: Art Goes to the Villages”, by Chou Kai. This is a fine and at times quite moving article about bringing art to the masses, but is not about the GPCR itself (which had not yet begun).
    • “The Interrelation of Political and Economic Independence”, by Hsu Nai-chiung.
    • “Latin America: The People Fight Ahead”, by Fen Hsi. About the struggles in Latin America in 1965 against U.S. imperialism.
    • “Facts on File: U.S. Economic Penetration of Latin America in 1965”.
    • “World Trends: Franco-American Antagonism Deepens”, by Hsin Wen.
  • #6 — February 4, 1966:
    • Contents
    • “Strong Protest to British Government”. About their allowing the U.S. Navy to use Hong Kong as an operations base for attacking Vietnam.
    • “China Resolutely Supports D.R.V.’s Just Stand”. Liu Shao-chi’s letter in reply to a letter from President Ho Chi Minh (see immediately below).
    • “President Ho Chi Minh Writes to Chairman Liu Shao-chi”. In regards to the Vietnamese determination never to submit to U.S. imperialist domination of their country.
    • “Johnson Resumes Bombing of North Vietnam: The Biggest Hypocrite and Butcher of Our Times”.
    • “U.N. Has No Right Whatsoever to Discuss Vietnam Question”.
    • “Whom Is the Soviet Leadership Taking United Action With?”, by Observer.
    • “The Soviet Government Once Again Exposes Itself”. How the USSR was working toward deals with the U.S. on the “non-proliferation of nuclear weapons” and other measures to “promote the easing of international tensions” at the same time the U.S. was greatly intensifying its war of aggression against Vietnam. Among other things this was allowing the U.S. to shift more troops from Europe to Vietnam.
    • “Further Remarks on the Sino-Cuban Trade Question”, by a responsible official of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade.
    • “Britain’s Shaky Labour Government”, by Tung Fang-hsiang.
            [Sidebar:] “Britain Through Washington’s Eyes”
    • “On the Ideological Front: Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Study Marxist Philosophy”.
    • “Applying Mao Tse-tung’s Thinking: A Revolutionary Outlook in Treating Burns”. How doctors have applied dialectics to improve their treatment of burns.
    • “Publishing: Workers’ and Peasants’ Philosophical Writings”.
  • #31 — July 29, 1966:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,878 KB]
• 1967 — Vol. 10:
  • #37 — September 8, 1967:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,473 KB]
• 1968 — Vol. 11:
  • #49 — December 6, 1968:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,607 KB]
• 1969 — Vol. 12:
  • #40 — October 3, 1969:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [5,403 KB]
• 1970 — Vol. 13:
  • #17 — April 24, 1970:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,826 KB]
  • #50 — December 11, 1970:
    • “Orientation of China’s Socialist Commerce”, by the Revolutionary Mass Criticism Writing Group of the Ministry of Commerce.
• 1971 — Vol. 14:
  • #15 — April 9, 1971:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,077 KB]
  • #41 — October 8, 1971:
    • “Japanese Monopoly Capital Steps Up Economic Expansion in Southeast Asia”.
  • #43 — October 22, 1971:
    • “A Discussion on Party Democratic Centralism”, in a Regiment Party Committee.
  • #50 — December 10, 1971:
    • “Sum Up Experience in Strengthening Party Leadership”, Editorial by “Renmin Ribao,” “Hongqi” and “Jiefangjun Bao”.
  • #52 — December 24, 1971:
    • “Bankruptcy of Renegade Philosophy”, by Ko Chun.
• 1972 — Vol. 15:
  • #2 — January 14, 1972:
    • “The Theory of Two Points”, by Hsueh Li. Explaining a term used to popularize materialist dialectics.
  • #4 — January 28, 1972:
    • “Multi-Purpose Use: Turning the Harmful Into the Beneficial”, by Chi Wei. Re-using waste products to save the environment.
  • #5 — February 4, 1972:
    • “Some Understanding From Studying ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’”, by the Writing Group of the Heilungkiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • #6 — February 11, 1972:
    • “Women’s Liberation in China”, by Soong Ching Ling.
  • #7-8 — February 25, 1972:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,240 KB]
    • “Restudying ‘A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire’”, by the Writing Group of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
  • #10 — March 10, 1972:
    • “How Engels Criticized Duhring’s Apriorism — Notes on studying ‘Anti-Duhring’”, by Wang Che.
    • “Lu Yu-lan Talks About: Liberation of Women”.
    • “Minority Nationality Cadres Maturing”.
  • #11 — March 17, 1972:
    • “The ‘Internationale’ Spurs Us On”.
  • #13 — March 31, 1972:
    • “Attach Importance to the Role of Teachers by Negative Example”, by Chi Ping.
  • #19 — May 12, 1972:
    • “The ‘May 7’ Cadre School”.
  • #20 — May 19, 1972:
    • “Literary and Art Workers Must Go Among the Masses”, by Hsin Wen-tung.
    • “For Your Reference: About ‘Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art’”
  • #29 — July 21, 1972:
    • “The Masses Are the Makers of History”, by Tien Chih-sung.
  • #30 — July 28, 1972:
    • “Grasp the General Trend of Historical Development: Notes on studying ‘On the Chungking Negotiations’”, by Hung Yuan.
  • #32 — August 11, 1972:
    • “Studying Marx’s ‘Wage Labour and Capital’: Essential Difference Between Two Distribution Systems”, by a workers’ group in Shanghai’s Hutung Shipyard.
    • “True Knowledge Comes From Practice — The experiences of expert cotton-grower Lu Chen-hsiang”.
    • “At U.N. Sea-Bed Committee: Superpowers’ Plunder of Fishing Resources Opposed”.
  • #33 — August 18, 1972:
    • Contents
    • “The Laws of Class Struggle in the Socialist Period”, by Chi Ping.
    • “Conference of Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Countries”.
    • “China at the U.N.: Consideration of ‘Bangla Desh’s’ Application for U.N. Membership Opposed”.
    • “At U.N. Sea-Bed Committee: No Superpowers’ Control of the Seas Is Allowed”.
    • “Housing the Working People”, by Hsing Huai-kao.
    • “Vigorous Communists: Leaders of Emancipated Slaves”.
  • #34 — August 25, 1972:
    • Contents
    • “On Studying Some History of Philosophy”, by Tang Hsiao-wen.
    • “Developing National Economy: Relationship Between Agriculture, Light Industry and Heavy Industry”, a summary of a discussion among cadres in Kwangtung Province.
    • “U.N. Sea-Bed Committee Ends Session”.
    • “Shanghai Applies Electronic Techniques”.
  • #35 — September 1, 1972:
    • “Where Do Man’s Knowledge and Talent Come From?”, by the Revolutionary Committee of the Chingchiang Sugar-Refinery.
  • #36 — September 8, 1972:
    • “The Bankruptcy of Apriorism as Seen From the History of Knowledge”, by Tang Hsiao-wen.
  • #41 — October 13, 1972:
    • “Cadres Studying Marxism-Leninism: Theory Is the Guide to Practice”.
  • #42 — October 20, 1972:
    • “Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Studying Philosophy: The Birth of a Subterranean Well”.
  • #43 — October 27, 1972:
    • “Overcoming Empiricism — Notes on studying Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’”, by Ni Chih-fu.
  • #46 — November 17, 1972:
    • “Cadres Studying Marxism-Leninism: Revolutionary Theory of Reflection”.
  • #50 — December 15, 1972:
    • “Always Be One of the Working People: Notes on studying ‘The Civil War in France’”, by Wei Feng-ying.
• 1973 — Vol. 16:
  • #10 — March 9, 1973:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [2,948 KB]
  • #11 — March 16, 1973:
    • “Socialist Planned Economy — Notes on studying political economy”, by Wu Ching-wen.
    • “Eurodollar and the Dollar Crisis”.
  • #13 — March 30, 1973:
    • “U.N. Sea-Bed Committee: The Struggle in Defence of Maritime Rights”.
    • “The Two Superpowers — Fishing Overlords of the Seas”.
  • #14 — April 6, 1973:
    • “Having Faith in and Relying on the Majority of the Masses”, by An Chun.
  • #15 — April 13, 1973:
    • “U.N. Sea-Bed Committee: Superpowers’ Maritime Hegemony Opposed”.
  • #18 — May 4, 1973:
    • “Practising Economy: A Principle of Socialist Economics”, by Chi Ching.
    • “Imperialists Shift Burden of Economic Crises On to Developing Countries”, by Fu Ching-yen.
  • #19 — May 11, 1973:
    • “Seeing the Essence of Problems”, by Chi Ping. The point of this article is not a philosophical one about essences, but rather to keep the CPC members from being disheartened by the Lin Biao affair.
  • #44 — November 2, 1973:
    • “U.N. Conference on Law of Sea Recommended”.
• 1974 — Vol. 17:
  • #2 — January 11, 1974:
    • “A Forceful Criticism of Lin Piao’s Right-Deviationist Pessimism — Notes on Studying A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”, by Shih Chih-chien.
    • “National-Liberation Struggle in the Caribbean”.
  • #3 — January 18, 1974:
    • “Programme for Consolidation of Dictatorship of the Proletariat — Notes on studying On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship”, by Yu Tung.
    • “1973 in Retrospect: Capitalist World’s Economy in Serious Difficulties”, by Shih Chi-ping.
  • #4 — January 25, 1974:
    • “‘Upside Down’ Philosophy and Capitalist Restoration — Criticizing Lin Piao’s bourgeois idealism”, by Hsin Feng.
    • “In Praise of the Proletarian Line in Army Building — About the modern revolutionary Peking opera ‘Azalea Mountain’”.
    • “Soviet Revisionists’ Fascist Dictatorship”.
    • “Spectre That Makes Occupiers Tremble With Fear”, by Chin Hai. On the 5th anniversary of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
    • “Trouble Ahead for Japanese Economy”, by Ching Jan.
    • “Revolution and Development (IV): Mass Line in Road Building”, by Our Correspondent Chiang Shan-hao.
  • #5 — February 1, 1974:
    • Contents
    • The Week
      • “Deepening Criticism of Lin Piao Through Repudiating Confucius”.
    • “A Vicious Motive, Despicable Tricks — A criticism of M. Antonioni’s anti-China film ‘China’”, by “Renmin Ribao” Commentator.
  • #8 — February 22, 1974:
    • “Repudiating Antonioni’s Anti-China Film”.
  • #9 — March 1, 1974:
    • “Has Absolute Music No Class Character?”, by Chao Hua of the Arts Department of the Central Institute for Nationalities.
    • “Criticize the Revisionist Viewpoint in Music”, by Chu Lan.
  • #10 — March 8, 1974:
    • “China’s Women: Women’s Liberation Is a Component Part of the Proletarian Revolution”, by Hsu Kwang.
    • “Doctrine of Confucius and Mencius — The Shackle That Keeps Women In Bondage”, by Fu Wen.
  • #11 — March 15, 1974:
    • “Behind the So-Called ‘Energy Crisis’”, by Chang Chien. Includes comments on the wastefulness of the U.S. oil industry and the anarchy of production of capitalism in general as well as of how the imperialist plunder of the Third World works.
  • #39 — September 27, 1974:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [7,451 KB]
• 1975 — Vol. 18:
  • #1 — January 3, 1975:
    • Contents
    • “Paintings by Workers, Peasants and Soldiers”, by Chun Wen. Includes several paintings in color.
  • #2 — January 10, 1975:
    • “Rise of Third World and Decline of Hegemonism”.
    • “Study the Historical Experience of the Struggle Between the Confucian and Legalist Schools”, by Liang Hsiao.
    • “Building Oil Industry Through Self-Reliance — A visit to the new oil pipeline as well as Taching and Takang Oilfields (II)”, by Our Correspondents Hsiang Jung and Yu Hai.
  • #3 — January 17, 1975:
    • Contents
    • “Soviet-U.S. Contention for Hegemony Intensifies”.
    • “Militarization of Soviet National Economy and Its Calamitous Consequences”, by Hsieh Mu-to.
    • “Western Capitalist World Faces Most Serious Postwar Economic Crisis”.
    • “Workers Studying Philosophy: Small Factories Build 400-Ton Platform Trailer”.
    • “Cadres Studying Theory: Communists Seek Not Official Posts, But Revolution”, by Fang Ho-ming.
  • #4 — January 24, 1975:
    • “Report on the Revision of the Constitution”, by Chang Chun-chiao. Delivered on January 13, 1975 and adopted on January 17, 1975 at the First Session of the Fourth National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.
  • #5 — January 31, 1975:
    • “Advance Victoriously Along Chairman Mao’s Line in Army Building — Notes on studying ‘On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party’ and criticizing Lin Piao’s bourgeois line in army building”, by Liang Hsiao and Cheng Li. Focuses on the principle that the Party must command the army.
    • “Soviet Social-Imperialism in 1974: More Exposure of Its True Colours”.
  • #6 — February 7, 1975:
    • “Great Strategic Measure for Carrying Out People’s War — On studying ‘Build Stable Base Areas in the Northeast’”, by a theoretical group of a unit of the PLA.
    • “United States: Worst Postwar Economic Crisis”. Includes some brief criticism of Keynesianism.
  • #7 — February 14, 1975:
    • “Study Well the Theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. Editorial reprinted from Renmin Ribao.
    • “Conscientiously Study the Theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, by Chih Heng.
    • “Revolution in Education: Peasants — College Graduates — Peasants”.
    • “No Trickery Can Conceal Expansionist Nature”, commentary by a Hsinhua Correspondent about the Soviet Union’s refusal to return islands seized in World War II to Japan.
    • “Latin American Opinion Censures Soviet Hegemonism”.
  • #8 — February 21, 1975:
    • “The Nation Studies Theory of Dictatorship of the Proletariat”.
    • “Uphold the Marxist View of War, Criticize Lin Piao’s Revisionist View”, by the Mass Criticism Group of the Military and Political College.
    • “Medicine and Health (I): For Workers, Peasants and Soldiers”, by Dr. Wu Chieh-ping.
  • #9 — February 28, 1975:
    • “Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, a collection of quotations. Related issues discussed include several quotes about “bourgeois right” and about how commodity production gives rise to capitalism, and quotes about bureaucracy, opportunism and Subbotniks.
    • “Build a Theoretical Force for Combating and Preventing Revisionism”, by Yuan Ching. Features a discussion about connecting up the criticism of current errors with their historical roots or predecessors.
  • #10 — March 7, 1975:
    • “On the Social Basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party Clique”, by Yao Wen-yuan. Famous article by one of the “Gang of Four”.
  • #11 — March 14, 1975:
    • “Historical Tasks of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat — Notes on studying ‘A Great Beginning’”, by Chou Szu.
  • #12 — March 21, 1975:
    • “The Proletariat Must Exercise Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie”, by Liang Hsiao.
  • #13 — March 28, 1975:
    • “Leading Cadres Must Take the Lead and Study Well”, unsigned editorial from “Renmin Ribao.”
    • “Uphold the Theoretical Weapon of Proletarian Dictatorship — Commemorating the centenary of the writing of ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’”, by Lu Ming.
    • “Soviet Social-Imperialism: Record of a Plunderer”, unsigned article.
  • #14 — April 4, 1975:
    • “On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie”, by Chang Chun-chiao. Famous article by one of the “Gang of Four”.
  • #15 — April 11, 1975:
    • “Socialism Is the Class Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, by Po Ching. Focuses on Marx’s “Four Alls”.
    • “Cadres Taking Part in Collective Productive Labour”, by the Huihsien County Committee of the Communist Party of China. Includes two side-bars on cadre productive labor in China and about the geography and development of Huihsien County.
  • #16 — April 18, 1975:
    • “Criticize the Doctrines of Confucius and Mencius to Consolidate the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, by Hung Kwang-szu.
    • “Criticism of Selected Passages From ‘Analects’ — A Confucian ‘Classic’”, by the workers’ theoretical study group of the No. 2 workshop of the Shanghai No. 5 Steel Plant.
  • #19 — May 9, 1975:
    • “No Inflation in China: Stable Prices and the Reasons”, by Chi Ti. First in a series of three.
  • #20 — May 16, 1975:
    • “The Touchstone for Testing Genuine and Sham Marxism”, by Tien Chih-sung.
    • “For Your Reference: Bourgeois Scholars on Classes and Class Struggle”.
    • “No Inflation in China: Long-Term Balance in Revenue and Expenditure”, by Hsia Wei. Second in a series of three.
  • #21 — May 23, 1975:
    • “No Inflation in China: Long-term Stability of ‘Renminbi’”, by Wang Ping. Third in a series of three.
    • “Geneva Sea Law Conference: Another Round in the Struggle Against Maritime Hegemonism”.
  • #22 — May 30, 1975:
    • “Ideological Weapon for Restricting Bourgeois Right — Notes on studying ‘Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’”, by Chi Yen.
    • “For Your Reference: What Is Commodity Production?”, by Nan Ching. Short article.
    • “For Your Reference: What Is Exchange Through Money?”, by Po Ching. Short article.
  • #35 — August 29, 1975:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [2,941 KB]
• 1976 — Vol. 19:
  • #13 — March 26, 1976:
    • “From Bourgeois Democrats to Capitalist-Roaders”, by Chih Heng. This excellent article brings out the class nature of Deng Xiaoping and others like him.
    • “Peking University: Criticizing the Programme for Capitalist Restoration”. Explains what is wrong with Deng Xiaoping’s slogan of “taking the three directives as the key link”.
    • “Angry Roar of the Egyptian People”, by “Renmin Ribao” Commentator. Applauding the Egyptian abrogation of the Egyptian-Soviet “treaty of friendship and co-operation”.
    • “Egypt Hails Abrogation of Egyptian-Soviet Treaty”.
    • “For Your Reference: How Soviet Revisionists Used Egyptian-Soviet Treaty to Control Egypt”.
  • #14 — April 2, 1976:
    • “Beat Back the Right Deviationist Attempt to Reverse Correct Verdicts, Promote Industrial Production”, an editorial from “Renmin Ribao” on March 28.
    • “Criticism of ‘Taking the Three Directives as the Key Link’”, an unsigned article criticizing Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-ping). This article makes the prescient observation that while the Chinese economy might also develop even if the proletariat lost control, “it would turn out to be modernization of an imperialist or social-imperialist type.”
    • “Tsinghua University: Criticizing the Unrepentant Capitalist-Roader”.
    • “Revolution in Literature and Art: Spring Comes to China’s Stage”.
  • #15 — April 9, 1976:
    • “Resolution of C.P.C. Central Committee on Appointing Comrade Hua Kuo-feng First Vice-Chairman of C.P.C. Central Committee and Premier of State Council”. A one-sentence resolution.
    • “Resolution of C.P.C. Central Committee on Dismissing Teng Hsiao-ping From All Posts Both Inside and Outside Party”. Very brief statement.
    • “Comrade Wu Teh’s Broadcast Speech at Tien An Men Square”.
    • “Counter-Revolutionary Political Incident at Tien An Men Square”.
    • “Firmly Keep to the General Orientation of the Struggle”.
  • #16 — April 16, 1976:
    • “A Great Victory”, a Renmin Ribao editorial about the fall of Teng Hsiao-ping (Deng Xiaoping) and his removal from all offices inside and outside the Party.
    • “Denial of the Difference Between Socialism and Capitalism Is Not Allowed — Repudiating the theme about ‘white cat, black cat’”, by Chin Chih-po. [Criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping (Deng Xiaoping)].
    • “Socialist Industry (I): The System of Ownership — A visit to the Talien Hungchi Shipyard”, by Our Correspondents Chou Chin and Hsiang Jung.
  • #21 — May 21, 1976:
    • Contents
    • The Week
      • “Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of C.P.C. Central Committee’s May 16 ‘Circular’”.
      • “Socialist Transformation of Handicrafts and Private Commerce in Tibet”.
      • “Spring Export Fair Ends”.
    • “The Great Cultural Revolution Will Shine For Ever” — In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the May 16, 1966 “Circular” of the CC of the CPC. Connects up the anniversary of the beginning of the GPCR with the current struggle against Deng Xiaoping.
    • “Excellent Opportunity for Restudy — A visit to the Liaoning Provincial May 7 Cadre School”, by Our Correspondents Cheng Chih and Chou Chin.
    • “An Important Way to Train Proletarian Cadres”, by Miao Pao-tai, Principal of Liaoning Provincial May 7 Cadre School.
    • “At 4th UNCTAD Session: Speech by Chou Hua-min, Head of Chinese Delegation”. Discusses efforts by Third World countries to end imperialist exploitation because of unequal trade relationships.
    • “Facts on File: The Integrated Programme for Commodities”. This is sort of a sidebar, or appendix to the above article.
    • “At 4th Session of U.N. Sea Law Conference: Developing Countries Combat Maritime Hegemony”.
    • “The Brezhnev Renegade Clique Damages Soviet Agriculture”.
    • Round the World
      • “Indo-Soviet Trade: Moscow’s New Tricks”.
  • #39 — September 24, 1976:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [9,786 KB]
• 1977 — Vol. 20:
  • #41 — October 7, 1977:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [5,231 KB]
• 1978 — Vol. 21:
  • #52 — December 29, 1978:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,878 KB]
• 1979 — Vol. 22:
  • #17 — April 27, 1979:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,435 KB]
• 1980 — Vol. 23:
  • #2 — January 14, 1980:
    • “Chairman Mao on Mao Zedong Thought”. This unsigned article shows a relatively early attempt by the revisionists to put their own systematic spin on Mao’s writings. However, there are some interesting quotations from Mao on the mass line here, which the revisionists fail to correctly understand.
  • #48 — December 1, 1980:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,216 KB]
• 1981 — Vol. 24:
  • #23 — June 8, 1981:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [3,610 KB]
• 1982 — Vol. 25:
  • #30 — July 26, 1982:
    • Entire issue in PDF format [4,288 KB]

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