¹ Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1952. Pp. liii, 278. $4.50.

² The “movement” is occasionally dated from July 1, 1941, when the CCP Central Committee adopted a resolution on “Strengthening the Party Spirit.” Compton also suggests that a “second” Cheng-feng Movement, hardly distinguishable from the “first,” began with a Central Committee resolution of June 1, 1943, on “Methods of Leadership.” A precise terminal date for the movement can hardly be fixed because of its very nature and purpose—indoctrination in the “universal truths of Marxism-Leninism” which are permanent guides to the conduct and attitudes of party members.

³ The Cheng-feng wen-hsien [Party Reform Documents] was probably first published in 1943, but the earliest known edition available in the United States is the “revised edition” issued by the Chieh-fang she (n.p.), 1944. The technique employed is familiar in conducting “movements” in Communist China. The ideological remoulding movement in 1950–1951 revolved around the reading and discussion of prescribed articles, statements, or documents; other materials were “assigned reading” during the movement “to reform the intellectuals” in November, 1951.

⁴ Also published in English translation as How to Be a Good Communist (Peking, Foreign Languages Press, Oct., 1951)Google Scholar.

⁵ The official English translation (Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1950) of Luntang, a briefer title for his 1945 report on the Party Constitution. See Steiner, H. A., “Liu Shao-ch'i, On the Party: A Review Article,” Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 11, no. 1 (Nov., 1951, pp. 79–84)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁶ Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. 258. $4.00. Using important source materials, North, Robert C., in “The Rise of Mao Tse-tung,” Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Feb., 1952, pp. 137–145)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, has supplemented and enlarged upon Schwartz' account of the conditions under which Mao finally captured the leadership of the CCP. North has also written a valuable introduction (“Communists of the Chinese Revolution”) to Wales', NymRed Dust; Autobiographies of Chinese Communists (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1952. Pp. xiv, 238. $5.00)Google Scholar.

⁷ Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1951. Pp. xiii, 382. $5.00.

⁸ Steiner, , “The Chinese Revolution,” Yale Review, Vol. 41, no. 2 (Winter, 1952, pp. 311–314)Google Scholar.

⁹ Their A Documentary History of Chinese Communism has been announced for 1952 publication (London: George Allen & Unwin; Cambridge: Harvard University Press)Google Scholar and has been examined in page proof. Portions of this long-awaited collection of documents and notes have already received a limited private or official distribution and have been used by researchers in the field. The Documentary History includes 40 selected documents covering the 27 years between 1922 and 1949; these are interspersed with 24 substantive or interpretative notes that make it something more than-a mere collection of documents. Twenty-eight of the documents are from the 1922–1940 period, and only three are postwar (all of 1949). Five of the Cheng-feng documents are necessarily included, since the history concentrates on the development of the internal party line, and only in this respect is there duplication or overlapping of the Compton book. Where the Compton volume more intensively probes into a relatively brief interval in the history of the CCP, the Brandt-Schwartz-Fairbank work is broader and more comprehensive in scope. While complementary to each other, these two volumes each make contributions in their own right.

¹⁰ As part of the current research project of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University, under the direction of Professor C. Martin Wilbur, that group is now translating some 40 of the Russian documents relating to the CCP captured during Chang Tsolin's raid on the Office of the Soviet Military Attaché in Peking, April 6, 1927. These documents, contemporaneously translated into Chinese by anti-Communist interests, are in Su-lien yın-mou wen-chang hui-pien [Collection of Documents on the Soviet Conspiracy] (Peking, 1928)Google Scholar. First-draft English translations of eight of the documents, whose authenticity is being verified, have been informally circulated.

Two recent mimeographed bibliographies of the East Asiatic Library of Columbia University, based on its holdings of CCP materials, also have special interest for the political scientist: (1) Guide to the Writings of Mao Tse-tung (Nov. 23, 1951, 16 pp.)Google Scholar, with Supplement I (March 6, 1952, 8 pp.); and (2) Writings of the Members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (April 5, 1952, 41 pp.)Google Scholar.

Several studies relating to Communist China are included in Research on China, compiled by the External Research Staff, Office of Intelligence Research, Department of State (ERS Research List No. 2, processed, Jan. 16, 1952, 11 pp.).

¹¹ New China News Agency announced (Shanghai, July 13, 1951) that “history reporting teams” had personally “reported” to 260 groups totalling 3,500,000 persons in the factories, schools and other organizations of the Shanghai area during the week of July 1, 1951. Comparable methods of popularizing party history for the masses were employed in nearly every urban center. The Peking Municipal Committee of the CCP issued a typical directive on this occasion: “Propaganda [for the 30th anniversary of the CCP) should center upon the revolutionary history of the CCP …. Reminiscences about the Party's historical struggles, and accounts of the struggles of revolutionary martyrs, model party workers and party organizations, should be collected from cadres and party members….” (NCNA, Peking, June 22, 1951).

¹² The Propaganda Department of the South-Central Branch Bureau of the party publicly advertised in September, 1951, for photographs of scenes of CCP activity in Wuhan in the troubled days of 1926–1927, and for files of contemporary journals and newspapers.

¹³ Examples: The Shanghai Ta Kung Pao, September 28, 1951, identified three sites where sessions of the First (i.e., founding) National Congress of the CCP were held in Shanghai in July, 1921, in an account of their restoration—along with Mao's temporary residence at that time—as national shrines. The Shanghai News, October 5, 1951, carried one Wang Chi's colorful account of his pilgrimage to Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, which is also becoming a shrine.

¹⁴ Tu Sung-shou has reported intimate details of Mao's propaganda and organizational activities in Canton early in 1926 (Hong Kong Wen Hui Pao, June 24, 1951, reprinted from Sian's Ch'un-chung jih-pao). General Ho Lung's account of the Nanchang Uprising of August 1, 1927, reports on an important episode in Chinese Communist military history, “confessing” that the confusion then prevailing resulted from the military leaders' unawareness of Mao's military “genius” and strategic concepts (Peking, Jen-min jih-pao, August 1, 1951). Ho's dereliction is entirely understandable, however, in view of Mao's complete abstention from military affairs until some date after August 1, 1927! On the same occasion, General Ch'en Yi recalled the military experiences of the 1927–1928 period in “Learn from the Marxist-Leninist Creative Style of Work of Chairman Mao” (NCNA, Peking, July 31, 1951).

¹⁵ Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, January 15, 1951, reprinted from Jen-min jih-pao.

¹⁶ His Chung-kuo che-hsüeh shih [History of Chinese Philosophy] became widely known with Derk Bodde's translation of its first volume (Peking, Henri Vetch, 1937)Google Scholar.

¹⁷ Shih-chieh lun [On Practice], reissued December 29, 1950, and fully translated in People's China, Vol. 3, no. 11 (June 1, 1951, supplement, 24 pp.). People's China is itself an important source of Communist-inspired history and ideology. Published in Peking fortnightly since January 1, 1950, by the Foreign Languages Press, it is the direct successor to the China Digest, formerly published in Hong Kong (Dec. 31, 1946-Feb. 1, 1950). Although current exchange regulations prevent the placing of subscriptions, copies of People's China are usually found at left-wing, “progressive” bookstores.

¹⁸ Yu-lan, Fung, “Mao Tse-Tung's On Practice and Chinese Philosophy,” People's China, Vol. 4, no. 10 (Nov. 16, 1951, pp. 5–7et seq.)Google Scholar.

¹⁹ By Jen-min ch'u-pan she, Peking; but simultaneously published in other places. This publication shows how CCP history is being rewritten “by omission.” In his famous Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan [Hu-nan nung-min yün-tung k'ao-ch'a pao-kao] (March, 1927), Mao had evaluated the respective contributions to the “democratic revolution” of city dwellers and military units, as contrasted with the peasantry, on a ten-point scale, and concluded: “The achievements of the urban dwellers and military units rate only three points, while the remaining seven points should go to the peasants in their rural revolution.” This “most remarkable statement” (Schwartz, p. 75), which appears in every other edition of the Report and has always been regarded as an important key to Mao's “thought,” is significantly deleted from the definitive text of 1951!

²⁰ Hsüeh-hsi tzü-tien (Peking, T'ien-hsia ch'u-pan she, May, 1951)Google Scholar. The nine separately paged sections of this volume total 822 double-column pages.

²¹ Hsin Chung-kuo jen-wu-chih (Hong Kong, Chou-ho-pao ts'ung-shu, 2 vols. bound in 1, pp. 278 and 268, respectively, 1950)Google Scholar.

²² Lun Mao Tse-tung ssu-hsiang Ma-k'o-ssu Lieh-ning chu-i yü Chung-kuo ko-ming ti chieh-ho (Peking, Hsin-hua shu-tien, July, 1951, pp. 58)Google Scholar. Text also in Hsüeh-hsi [Study], Vol. 4, nos. 6–7 (July 1, 1951, pp. 7–20)Google Scholar.

²³ Chung-kua kung-ch'an-tang ti san-shih nien [Thirty Years of the CCP] (Peking, Hsin-hua shu-tien, June, 1951, pp. 77)Google Scholar. Initial Peking press-run: 500,000 copies. Text also in Hsüeh-hsi, cited, pp. 33–53. English translation in People's China, Vol. 4, nos. 2–6 serially (July 16-Sept. 16, 1951)Google Scholar.

²⁴ Chung-kuo kung-ch'an-tang chien-shih [Brief History of the CCP] (Peking, Hsüehhsi, July, 1951, pp. 49)Google Scholar.

²⁵ Vol. 4, nos. 1–3 (July 1-Aug. 1, 1951).

²⁶ Chung-kuo kung-ch'an-tang ch'eng-li san-shih chou-nien chi-nien chuan-chi [Reports on the Achievements of the CCP during its Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration] (Canton, Hua-nan jen-min jih-pao, 3 vols., July, 1951)Google Scholar.

²⁷ Chung-kuo hsin min-chu chu-i ko-ming shih [History of the Chinese New Democratic Revolution].

²⁸ Ti-kuo chu-i yü Chung-kuo cheng-chih [Imperialism and Chinese Politics].

²⁹ Chung-kuo kung-ch'an-tang lieh-shih-chuan [Collected Articles on the CCP].

³⁰ Mei-kuo ch'in-hua shih (Peking, Jen-min ch'u-pan she, 1951)Google Scholar. This is an enlarged edition of his original Mei-kuo ch'in-hua chien-shih [Short History of American Aggression in China] (Peking ?, 1949)Google Scholar.