CONTENTS 5
1.THE FOUNDING OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA……From Handbook on People’s China 5
2.THIRTY GLORIOUS YEARS(Adapted)……By Chen Yi 9
3.PEKING AFTER 10 YEARS……By Lao Sheh 15
4.SANMEN GORGE DAM……By Liao Chien 24
5.RESOLUTION ON SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE PEOPLE’S COMMUNES(Extract) 30
6. BUILDING INDUSTRY ALL OVER CHINA ……By Chang Pei 41
7. THE DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY IN CHINA(Extract) ……By Chen Yun 50
8.FROM BETTER TOOLS TO MODERN FARMING …By Li Ching-yu 55
9.COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN CHINA TODAY(Abridged) ……By Hu Sheng 62
10.EDUCATION MUST BE COMBINED WITH PRODUCTIVE LABOUR (Extract)………By Lu Ting-yi 67
11.EDUCATION IN CHINA……By Harold Collins 76
12.POVERTY AND ‘WHITENESS’……By Liu Shao-chi 80
13.COMRADE MAO TSE-TUNG ON“IMPERIALISM AND ALL REACTIONARIES ARE PAPER TIGERS”(Extract) 83
14.OUR FOREIGN POLICY(Extract)……By Chou En-lai 91
15.A TURNING POINT FOR AFRICA……By Jòseph North 96
16.WOMEN IN THE PEACE FIGHT……By Eugenie Cotton 101
17. UNBREAKABLE ALLIANCE……From Moscow News 105
18.REMINISCENCES OF MARX(Adapted)…By Paul Lafargue 110
19.SPEECH AT THE GRAVESIDE OF KARL MARX……By Frederick Engels 113
20.FREDERICK ENGELS……From Daily Worker 117
21.THE MOST HUMAN OF MEN……By Maria Skripnik 121
22.HOW CHAIRMAN MAO ENCOURAGED ME TO LEARN(Adapted)……By Chen Chang-feng 129
23.THE TASK OF THE YOUTH LEAG UE(Extract)……By V.I.Lenin 134
24.THE FUNDAMENTAL THING IN LENINISM (Extract)……By J.Stalin 139
25.NEW STAGE IN COMMUNIST CONSTRUCTION AND SOME PROBLEMS OF MARXIST-LENINIST THEORY(Extract)…By N.S.Khrushchov 143
26.FULLEST EMPLOYMENT,SHORTEST WORKING DAY …By Y.Semenkov 150
27.THE TWO WORLD OUTLOOKS………By Mao Tse-tung 156
28.MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY(Extract) 162
29.DECLARATION OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’PARTIES OF SOCIALIST COUNTRIES(Extract) 166
30.COMMUNIQUE ON THE MEETING BETWEEN MAO TSE-TUNG AND N.S.KHRUSHCHOV 171
VOCABULARY 179