The People's Republic of China : a documentary History of revolutionary change

Part I. Land revolution and the new democracy, 1946-1952 -- Policy guidelines -- Mao Tsetung, the present situation and our tasks -- Mao Tsetung, the people's democratic dictatorship -- Mao Tsetung, from the countryside to the city -- The common program for the People's Republic of China -- The marriage law -- Regional autonomy for minority nationalities -- The land revolution -- The May fourth directive on settling accounts, rent reduction, and land -- The basic Agrarian Law -- Decisions on class status in the countryside -- Mao Tsetung, problems of land reform -- Women's work in the rural areas -- Agrarian policy of the People's Republic of China -- Liu Shao-ch'i, agrarian reform and the rich peasant economy -- The Agrarian Reform Law of 1950 -- A cadre's land reform diary -- Return to the cities: the origins of urban and industrial policy -- The origins of urban and industrial policy -- Jen Pi-shih, industrial and commercial policy
Mao Tsetung, the New Democratic Urban policy -- Ch'en Yun, industry, commerce, and taxation -- Ch'en Po-ta, labor and wage policy -- Management and reform in the factories -- Kao Kang, on factory management -- Liu Tzu-chiu, democratic reform in factories and mines -- Part II. The socialist transformation of city and countryside and the first five-year plan, 1953-1957 -- Policy guidelines for a developing socialist society -- The constitution and the general line for the transition to socialism -- Liu Shao-ch'i, report on the constitution -- The 1954 constitution -- China's industrialization and the model of Soviet Union -- Li fu-ch'un, on the first five-year plan -- Transforming capitalist industry and commerce -- Hsu Ti-hsin, from capitalist to socialist industry -- Mao Tsetung, speed up the socialist transformation of handicrafts -- The 1956 wage reform -- Mao Tsetung, on the ten major relationships -- Mao Tsetung, on the correct handling of -- ontradictions among the people -- Socialist transition in the Chinese countryside -- On mutual aid and cooperation in agriculture -- The formation of agricultural producers' cooperatives
Mao Tsetung, on agricultural cooperation -- Socialist upsurge in the countryside -- The national program for agricultural development, 1956-1967 -- Ch'en Yung-kuei, the formation of advanced cooperatives and the two-line struggle at Tachai -- The slaves' charter Part III. The great leap forward, 1958-1959 -- Strike while the iron is hot: the great leap vision and the transformation of the countryside -- Mao Tsetung, the vision of the great leap -- Speech at the supreme state conference -- Talks at Ch'engtu -- On uninterrupted revolution -- Liu Shao-ch'i
A blueprint for the great leap forward -- The birth of the people's communes -- Weihsing: the first people's commune -- The Pei-ta-ho resolution: communes transform the countryside
The Wuhan resolution: communes and the transition to communism -- Indigenous steel and rural industrialization -- Rural women advance in the great leap -- Away with all pests! -- The elimination of Schistosomiasis and the principles of health care -- Tidying up the people's communes -- The great leap in industry and the cities -- Decentralization of planning and administration -- The development of local industry -- Worker participation and the transformation of the Chinese factories -- Reform of industrial relations -- Experiments in factory management reform -- Piece work and socialist consciousness: reform of the wage system -- The urban people's communes -- Birth of the urban commune -- Urban commune and the transition to communism Part IV. The two-line struggle in city and countryside, 1959-1965 -- The great leap forward -- Mao Tsetung, the great leap forward and the communist wind
The great leap assailed and defended: the class of Lushan -- P'eng Teh-huai, the petty Bourgeois fanaticism of the great leap -- Mao Tsetung, the great leap assessed -- Revising commune management -- Po I-po, the seventy articles on industry -- Mao Tsetung, critique of Soviet economics -- On Khrushchev's phony communism -- The struggle sharpens in the countryside
Mao Tsetung, letter to team leaders -- Firmly oppose the communist wind -- The consolidation of the communes -- Central committee, urgent directive on the rural people's communes
Taking the brigade as the accounting unit in the people's communes -- Develop the role of the team -- The people's commune and the future of Agrarian development -- Tenth plenum resolution on the people's communes -- The sixty articles on the communes -- State farms -- The two-line struggle in Lien-chiang county -- The first ten points on problems in rural work Part V. The great proletarian cultural revolution, 1966-1976 -- Policy guidelines -- A call to action -- The sixteen points: guidelines for the great proletarian cultural revolution -- Mao Tsetung, assessing the cultural revolution -- Revolutionary committees and the attack on bureaucracy -- Chou En-lai, on classes, customs and cultural revolution -- The 1975 constitution -- The great proletarian cultural revolution in industry and the cities -- The cultural revolution in the cities -- The twelve-point directive: the cultural revolution in the factories -- Forming revolutionary great alliances -- The Tach'ing oil field, national model for industry -- Mao Tsetung, on the Anshan constitution -- Wages and the restriction of Bourgeois right -- The proletariat in the educational revolution -- The factory as university -- Higher education walks on two legs -- The uninterrupted revolution in the countryside -- Ch'en Yung-kuei, management, remuneration and consciousness in the Tachai Brigade -- The cultural revolution in the countryside -- Directive on the cultural revolution in the countryside -- Revolution and the rhythm of rural life -- Spring planting and cultural revolution -- Mechanization, cooperation and decentralization -- Delayed marriage and planned birth: a socialist population policy -- Equal pay for equal work for women
Up to the mountains and down to the countryside: educated youth in the communes -- The seven-year plan for development of Hsinching Brigade