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Miscellaneous Sympathetic Foreign Commentary on China During the Mao Era
Articles, Pamphlets, Documents, Magazines, etc.
This page makes available an assortment of pamphlets and articles about China during the Mao era which were prepared by a diverse variety of different organizations and sources, including political publications, friendship organizations, and even religious groups. These sources are generally quite sympathetic to China and the Chinese Revolution.
Some of the documents here have the file extension “.djvu” and require the WinDjView program to read them. This reader can be obtained for free at: http://www.windjview.sourceforge.net (Linux users have the capability to read .djvu files integrated into their PDF readers of the major desktops: Okular in KDE, Evince in GNOME.)
If you have access to other appropriate materials which can and should be scanned and posted here, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Pamphlets:
- “What We Saw in China”, by 15 Americans, who participated in the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions in October 1952, (NY: Weekly Guardian Associates, 1952), 68 pages. [The scanned copy was in very poor condition (i.e., falling apart), but the document is still quite legible.] Searchable PDF format [19,645 KB]
- “Through People’s China in a Friendship Train”, by Fernand Leriche, (England: World Federation of Trade Unions, 1953), 68 pages. Report of a WFTU delegation from 21 countries visiting China by train. PDF format [5,972 KB]
- “What’s Really Happening in China?”, by Felix Greene, (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959), 68 pages. PDF format [3,542 KB]
- “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. PDF format [3,207 KB]
- “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) PDF format [4,675 KB]
- “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. PDF format [4,997 KB]
- “China: Revolution & Health”, by Mark Selden, Health/PAC Bulletin, #47, December 1972, published by the Health Policy Advisory Center, New York, 20 pages. PDF format [2,658 KB]
- “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, (Woodmont, Conn.: Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., 1973), 28 pages. PDF format [1,722 KB]
- “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.) PDF format [8,167 KB]
- “Education in the People’s Republic of China”, by Fred L. Pincus, Research Group One Report No. 20, July 1974, 32 pages. PDF format [1,738 KB]
- “Economic Planning in China”, by Geoff Mason, New Zealand-China Society, 1976, 60 pages. PDF format [4,178 KB]
- “China and the Nuclear Question”, by Joan Donley, New Zealand-China Society, 2nd revised ed. 1976, 20 pages. PDF format [1,237 KB]
- “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. PDF format [1,422 KB]
- “China’s Foreign Policy — An Outline”, compiled by Clark Kissinger, August 1976, 60 pages. PDF format [4,981 KB]
- "Key Word in China Today: Three-In-One Combination", by Ronny Ambjornsson, from the Swedish language communist weekly publication Tid-signal (Time Signal) No. 23, Stockholm, July 12-18, 1967, 3 pages. The author observes the differences in the movement in various cities and factories, defines economism, and states, "In general, one can tell how far the revolution has advanced in a factory by counting the revolution organizations: the more organizations, the longer they are from taking power." Translation from US Government Joint Publication Research Service: Searchable PDF format [18.9 MB]
- [More to be added.]
Journalism and Other Materials:
- [Book:] Assignment China: An American Journalist’s Report of Four Years in Red China, by Julian Schuman, 1956, 257 pages. WinDjView format [Extremely large file: 96,179 KB]
- “China Survey” [“Shang-ts’ung-pao”], a dual English & Chinese language supplement to the West German business daily Handelsblatt promoting trade between China and the West, Spring 1959, 16 newspaper-size pages. WinDjView format [29,835 KB]