Some important documents from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in socialist China

Circular of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

This circular initiating the Great Proletarian was issued by the Central Committee on May 16, 1966. We are reproducing the 1966 Foreign Languages Press translation, including the use of the Wade-Giles Chinese to English translation system.
Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

This document was drafted under Mao Zedong’s leadership, and adopted by the Central Committee on August 8th, 1966. We are reproducing the 1966 Peking Review translation, including the use of the Wade-Giles Chinese to English translation system.
An Epoch Making Document: In Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the Publication of the Circular

This commemoration was authored by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi, and Jiefangjun Bao and published on May 17th, 1968. We are reproducing the 1968 Foreign Languages Press translation, which used the Wade-Giles Chinese to English transliteration system. Quotation from Chairrnan Mao TsetungThe great proletarian cultural revolution is in essence a great political revolution…
Conscientiously Study Chairman Mao’s Philosophical Works

This editorial by Renmin Ribao was published on October 30th, 1970. We are reproducing the version published in the November 6th, 1970 edition of Peking Review.
Study Materialist Dialectics and Be a Vanguard Fighter in Consciously Making Revolution

This article by Wang Shuchen, a woman worker of the Tianjin No. 4 Cotton Mill, was published in the December 4th, 1970 edition of Peking Review.
Long Live the Victory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat: in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Paris Commune

This article, by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi, and Jiefangjun Bao was published on March 18th, 1971. We are reproducing the 1971 Foreign Languages Press Translation.
Has Absolute Music No Class Character?

This article by Chao Hua, a member of the Arts Department of the Central Institute for Nationalities first appeared in Renmin Ribao in 1974, and translated into English in the Peking Review. We are reproducing it as it appears in the 1978 collection And Mao Makes 5.
Study Well the Theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

This editorial by Renmin Ribao was published in February, 1975 and translated in English in Peking Review in Feburary, 1975. We are reproducing it as it appears in the 1978 collection And Mao Makes 5.
On the Social Basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party Clique

This article by Yao Wenyuan was first published in Hongqi in early 1975, and published in English in the Peking Review in March, 1975. We are reproducing it as it appears in the 1978 collection And Mao Makes 5.
On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie

This article by Zhang Chunqiao was published as a pamphlet by Foreign Languages Press in 1975 and in Peking Review in April 1975. We are reproducing it as it appears in the 1978 collection And Mao Makes 5.
Proletarians are Revolutionary Optimists

This article by Pi Sheng was first published in Hongqi in 1976, and translated to English by the Peking Review in September, 1976. We are reproducing it as it appears in the 1978 collection And Mao Makes 5.