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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
Some important documentation has been published in the Chinese press since the dismissal of Teng Hsiao-p'ing regarding the policies which he pursued during the preceding year. As might be expected this evidence is partial and fragmentary, but it does throw new light on recent events. In particular the material strongly suggests that Teng took to the offensive in 1975 against what he regarded as a widespread tendency of ultra-Leftism especially in the Party, in industry and education, and that the anti-Teng struggle in spring 1976 was therefore not unprQVpked. Whether the policies advocated by Teng amounted to “restoring capitalism,” and whether the contradiction between the two lines was in fact “antagonistic,” is of course another question. This research note is simply designed to bring the story up to date for readers of The China
1. This document is discussed and quoted at some length in Ti Ching, “ On an as yet unpublished document,” Hsueh-hsi yu p'i-p'an (Shanghai), No. 4, 1976. It is discussed much more sketchily in “ A confession of attempt at reversal of verdicts and restoration,” Peking Review, 9 July 1976.
2. This document is also discussed in a “ Select critique” published in the same issue of Hsueh-hsi yu p'i-p'an.
3. Lu Ta, “ A set of rules for speeding up capitalist restoration,” Peking radio, 7 June 1976, transl. in BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, Part III: The Far East (FE), No. 5230. See below at p. 673.
4. Kao Lu and Chang Ko, “ Comment on Teng Hsiao-p'ing's compradorbourgeois economic concept.” Hung-ch'i, No. 7, 1976, transl. in FE, No. 5260.
5. Lu Ta, “A set of rules.”
6. Chung Shih, “Criticize the revisionist absurd fallacies on the industrial and communications front,” Hung-ch'i, No. 5, 1976, transl. in FE, No. 5207.
7. Kang Li and Yen Feng, “ Before and after the unleashing of the ‘ Draft Outline’,” Hsueh-hsi yu p'i-p'an. No. 4, 1976.
8. See also: mass criticism group of Peking and Tsinghua Universities, “ Repulse Right-deviationist wind in the science and technology circles to reverse previous verdicts,” Hung ch'i, No. 2, 1976; and mass criticism group of Futan University, “ A counter-revolutionary revisionist outline,” People's Daily, 19 July 1976, transl. in FE, No. 5126.
9. “Il grande dibattito sulla rivoluzione dell'insegnamento in Cina,” Vento dell'est (Milano), No. 41 (March 1976), pp. 23–175.
10. Liao-ning Jih-pao, 26 December 1975; People's Daily, 7 January 1976.
11. Pei-ching Ta-hsueh Hsueh-pao, No. 3, 1976, pp. 35–52.
