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For a Return to Genuine Marxism in China
“The latest media fad in our country is a kind of ‘worship’ of the Gang of Four. It appears to people as if the Gang of Four were almost gods, with vast magical powers. They were capable of moving heaven and earth—they could make China change colour if . . .” read more
China Notebook
“I had no illusions—I was well aware that during an eighteen-day stay in China I would not gather enough material to write even a journalistic article, let alone a more serious analysis or essay. I had adopted a somewhat self-righteous attitude towards those who after their first short . . .” read more
Marxist Analysis and Post-Revolutionary China
“The Communist Party of China’s triumph in 1949 was an event of momentous importance. It put an end to the century of foreign intervention in China that had begun with the Opium War of 1840, and liberated a quarter of the world’s population from control by capitalism. The . . .” read more
Introduction to 'The Yenan Literary Opposition'
“In the spring of 1942 a series of articles appeared in the Yenan press which took as their theme the need to expose the ‘dark side’ of life in the Communist base areas of northern China. The authors of these articles saw themselves as upholders of the literary . . .” read more
People’s Communes: How to Use the Standard Visit
“The tourist who visits the Chinese countryside for the first time has the disconcerting feeling that he is entering a different world. According to his inclinations, he may exultantly discover in it a revolution successfully carried through on a land smitten in the past with calamities, where new . . .” read more
China 1974: Problems not Models
“Deep down, French public opinion is still anti-Chinese. For example, l’Aurore and Paris Match do not hesitate to play on ignorant and quasi-racist fears of the ‘yellow peril’. Consequently, the pro-Chinese sentiments which travellers and leftists have combined over the past few years to disseminate should be seen . . .” read more
Letter to Sirimavo Bandaranaike
“Below is the complete text of Chou En-lai’s letter to Sirimavo Bandaranaike, dated April 26 1971 and officially published by the Ceylonese Government a month later. The text has not been readily accessible internationally, thus giving rise to uncertainty as to the letter’s existence or authenticity. For . . .” read more
Introduction to Mao’s 'Letter to Comrade Lin Piao'
“This letter is best known in the abbreviated and partially altered version included under the heading ‘A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire’ in the editions of Mao’s writings published at Peking since 1951. It was written at Kut’ien, Fukien Province, where the Ninth Party Congress of . . .” read more
Marxism and Asia
“The upsurge of colonial revolution in recent years has led to a fresh examination of earlier Marxist work on this topic, both by Marx and Engels themselves, and by theorists of the Third International. This book gives a serious and mainly non-polemical approach to some aspects of this . . .” read more
The New Chinese Revolution
“Great things have been happening in China during the past three years, where the masses have been taking part in struggles to decide the future of the socialist revolution in their country. An established Communist Party and government structure has been shaken and in places replaced in popular . . .” read more
The Cultural Revolution in Canton (Part II)
“This fiftieth issue of New Left Review opens with a critique, by Perry Anderson, of the structures of bourgeois culture in Britain. The task of forging a revolutionary and internationalist political culture in this country has always been a central preoccupation of the Review. This involves attacking the . . .” read more
The Cultural Revolution in Canton (Part I)
“For over a year the students have taken the lead in the Cultural Revolution all over China. Now the emphasis has shifted to the workers. This is a suitable moment to take stock. The following is a brief outline of the situation at Zhongda (Sun Yat-sen University)—October 1967—and . . .” read more
History in the Manufacture
“As China grows in power and revolutionary achievement the Western world begins to take her history seriously. Chinese studies, particularly in the usa, have developed from an eccentricity to an industry. The American government, in its role of world gendarme concerned to strangle or corrupt popular revolutionary . . .” read more
Introduction to 'A Chinese Village'
“Exaggeration is easy. Privation is one thing, poverty to the point of wretchedness—‘la misére’—another. A sturdy self-reliant stock may grow in a stony soil. But, when due allowance has been made for the inevitable misconceptions, it is difficult to resist the conclusion that a large proportion of Chinese . . .” read more
The Boxer Rebellion
“At the turn of the century a peasant movement in North China known as the Society of the Harmonious Fist—and therefore before long nicknamed the “Boxers” by foreign residents—developed extreme xenophobic attitudes both to foreigners themselves and also to Chinese Christians and others who were deemed to be . . .” read more