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“On the Record” With Mao and his Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

H. Arthur Steiner
H. Arthur Steiner
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , February 1958 , pp. 215 - 223
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958

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References

1 New China News Agency, Peking, May 10, 1957, as translated in American Consulate General, Hong Kong, Survey of China Mainland Press (SCMP), No. 1543 (June 4, 1957), p. 11.

2 The contents of Vols. I and IV correspond wholly with the contents of Vols. I and III, resp., of the original Peking ed. The contents of Vols. II and III correspond to those of Vol. II of the Peking original, with a slight variation in the sequential arrangement. “On Contradiction,” published as the final item in the original Peking ed. of Vol. II, is the first item in Vol. II of the English translation; and a note inserted in the British ed. states: “‘On Contradiction’, as a companion piece to ‘On Practice’ … will in future editions also be included in the first volume.”

3 SCMP, No. 1505 (April 5, 1957), p. 1.

4 Mao Tse-tung hsūan-chi is to be distinguished from at least four earlier collections published under the identical title. A 5-vol. ed. published by Pe-hai Hsin-hua shu-tien, May 1944, is bound in a single volume in the set held by the Chinese-Japanese Library of the Harvard-Yenching Institute; it includes 29 items, with a total pagination of 723. A 6-vol. ed. originally published in 1946 under the imprint of Chung-kuo Kung-ch'an tang Chin-Ch'a-Chi chung-yang-chü (Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Branch Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party), and reissued in a single binding in 1947, is held by the Hoover Institute and Library, which also holds the 1-vol. supplement published in Dec. 1947. This collection includes 44 items, with a total pagination of 1198. Benjamin Schwartz cites a 1-vol. ed. published by Tung-pei shu-tien, presumably in Harbin, in 1948 (Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao [Cambridge, 1951], p. 242Google Scholar). During 1948–49, the Hsin min-chu ch'u-pan she in Hong Kong issued a number of Mao's major works in a series of booklets under the general series title: Mao Tse-tung hsüan-chi, although others in the same format appeared under a variant series title: Mao Tse-tung chu [Works of Mao Tse-tung].

5 Typical examples are: Hsüeh-hsi “Mao Tse-tung hsüan-chi” [Study “Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung”], in Kan-pu hsüeh-hsi tzu-liao [Cadre Study Materials], No. 39 (Canton: Hua-nan jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1951)Google Scholar; Ch'eng, Chenget al., Hsüeh-hsi “Mao Tse-tung hsüan-chi” ti i-chüan [Study Volume I of “Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung”] (Peking: Hsin chien-she tsa-chi she ch'u-pan, 1951)Google Scholar; Ta, Liet al., “Shih-chien lun” chieh-shuo [“On Practice” Explained] (Peking: San-lien shu-tien ch'u-pan, 1951)Google Scholar; and Hsüeh-hsi “Shih-chien lun” yu “Mao-tun lun” [Study “On Practice” and “On Contradiction”] (Shanghai: Hua-tung jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1952)Google Scholar.

6 Two of these works still circulate widely in Communist China: Po-ta, Ch'en, Lun Mao Tse-tung ssu-hsiang — Ma-k'o-ssu Lieh-ning chu-i yū Chung-kuo ko-ming ti chieh-ho [On the Thought of Mao Tse-tung—Combining Marxism-Leninism and the Chinese Revolution] (Peking: Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1951)Google Scholar, and Chiao-mu, Hu, Chung-kuo Kung-ch'an tang ti san-shih nien [Thirty Years of the Chinese Communist Party] (Peking: Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1951)Google Scholar.

7 Only a few examples will be given here: Hsü , Mou-yung, Ma-k'o-ssu Lieh-ning chu-i ho Mao Tse-tung ssu-hsiang ti chien-tan chieh-shao [Introduction to Marxism-Leninism and the Thought of Mao Tse-tung] (Hankow: Chung-Nan jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1952)Google Scholar; Ju-hsin, Chang, Mao Tse-tung tung-chih tui Ma-k'o-ssu chu-i p'ien-cheng-fa ti kung-hsien [Comrade Mao Tse-tung's Contributions to the Marxist Dialectical Method] (Peking: Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1954)Google Scholar, and Mao Tse-tung tung-chih Ma-k'o-ssu chu-i wei-wu-lun ti kung-hsien [Comrade Mao Tse-tung's Contributions to Marxist Materialism] (Peking, Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1954)Google Scholar —both reissued in 1957 under slightly variant titles; Chiang, Yü, Kung-ch'an chu-i tao-te wen-t'i [Problems of Communist Morality] (Peking: Kung-jen ch'u-pan she, 1955)Google Scholar; and Che-ming, Wang, P'ien-cheng wei-wu chu-i jen-shih-lun tui shih-chi kung-tso ti i-i [The significance of Dialectical Materialist Teaching for Practical Work] (Peking: Pei-ch'ing ch'u-pan she, 1956)Google Scholar.

8 T'e, Ma, “Ts'ung shih-chi ch'u-fa” — Hsüeh-hsi Mao Tse-tung tung-chih wei-wu chu-i ssu-hsiang fang-fa ti liang p'ien-pi chi [“For Practical Reasons”—Study Two Memorable Works on Comrade Mao Tse-tung's Materialist Thought and Method] (Peking: Chung-kuo ch'ing-nien ch'u-pan she, 1956)Google Scholar; P'o, P'ang, T'an mao-tun ti p'u-pien hsing ti t'e-she hsing [On the General and Specific Characteristics of Contradictions] (Peking: T'ung-su tu-wu ch'u-pan she, 1956)Google Scholar.

9 Mao, Selected Works (hereafter cited as “Mao”), I, 21–59. The sentence is deleted from the first paragraph on p. 25. The statistical tables that accompanied “Report…” are also omitted.

10 Mao, IV, 244–315. The omitted paragraph is the final one in the section on “Our General Programme,” and would have appeared on p. 278.

11 Mao, I, 175–253.

12 As recorded in Gelder, S., The Chinese Communists (London: Gollancz, 1943), pp. 169–173Google Scholar.

13 Mao, IV, 7–11.

14 , Mao, Nung-min yün-tung yü nung-ts'un tiao-ch'a [Survey of the Peasant Movement and Rural Villages] (Hong Kong: Hsin min-chu ch'u-pan she, 1949), pp. 39–181Google Scholar.

15 Mao, IV, 105–110.

16 , Mao, Ching-chi wen-t'i yü ts'ai-cheng wen-t'i [Economic and Financial Problems] (Hong Kong: Hsin min-chu ch'u-pan she, 1949). 216Google Scholar.

17 Mao, IV, 157–170.

18 Mao, IV, 171–218.

19 Mao, IV, 199–200.

20 Chung-kuo Kung-ch'an tang ti pa-tz'u ch'üan-kuo tai-piao ta-hui wen-hsien [Records of the Eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party], pp. 411–412.

21 “Draw in Large Numbers of Intellectuals,” Resolution of the Central Committee, December 1, 1939, Mao, III, 71.

22 “Rectify the Party's Style in Work” (Feb. 1, 1942), Mao, IV, 28–45.

23 Mao, III, 106–156.

24 Mao, III, 72–101, at 87–99.

25 Mao, III, 91.

26 Mao, II, 13–53.

27 Mao, II, 25.

28 Chung-kuo Kung-ch'an tang ti pa-tz'u ch'üan-kuo tai-piao ta-hui wen-chien [Documents of the Eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party] (Peking: Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1956). 234Google Scholar. 1.40 yüan.

29 Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (Peking, 1956). Vol. I: Documents, 328; Vol. II: Speeches, 387; Vol. III: Greetings from Fraternal Parties, 262 (Unpriced.)

30 Chung-hua jen-min kung-ho-kuo ti i-chieh ch'üan-kuo jen-min tai-piao ta-hui ti i- [erh-, san-] tz'u hui-i wen-chien [Documents of the First (Second, Third) Sessions of the First National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China] (Peking: Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1955–56). First Session: [2], 189. 9600 yüan (befor e revaluation). Second Session: [2], 341. 1.38 yüan. Third Session: [3], 364. 1.20 yüan. The initial press runs of the Documents have successively declined from 80,000 to 36,000 to 13,000 copies.

31 Peking: Fa-lü ch'u-pan she, 1956. Vol. I: Sept. 1954-June 1955. [10], 556. 3 yüan. Vol. II: July-Dec. 1955. [12], 887. 4 yüan. Vol. Ill: Jan.-June 1956. [10], 614. 3.20 yüan.