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Safeguarding World PeaceAT the twentieth anniversary cele-brations of the Chinese People's Re-public in Peking on 1 October, LinPiao, Vice-Chairman of the CPC,underlined once again China's positionon peaceful co-existence. He said thatChina's stand would always be: ' Wewill not attack unless we are attacked;if we are attacked, we will certainlycounter-attack '.

Despite the activities of the UnitedStates and the USSR, who were ' carry-ing out arms expansion and war pre-parations and wildly attempting toengineer a war of aggression againstour country ', China would stand bythe five principles of peaceful co-existence, he said.

Vice-Chainnan Lin spoke of the' nuclear blackmail ' of Russia and theUnited States, and a convincing demon-tration of China's ability to retaliateif subjected to a nuclear attack wasgiv.en just before the anniversary cele-brations, when on September 23 and29 she conducted two more nuclear

tests, the former being the firstChinese underground nuclear explosion,

in the statement announcing these,the New China News Agency says thatthe conducting of necessary and limitedtests, and the development of nuclear

CONGRATULATIONSTHE following telegram was sentto China on the occasion of the20th Anniversary of the Foundingof the People's Republic on1 October:

' Warm greetings of friendshipto Chairman Mao Tse-tung and atfChinese people. Congratulationson 20th Anniversary and China'soutstanding achievements buildingsocialism.'

weapons by China ' are entirely for thepurpose of defence and for breakingthe nuclear monopoly, with the ulti-mate aim of abolishing nuclearweapons.'

The statement goes on: ' The ChineseGovernment has solemnly declaredmany times that at no time and in oncircumstances will China be the firstto use nuclear weapons. As in the past,th.e Chinese people and Governmentwill continue to make common effortsand persevere in the struggle togetherwith the revolutionary people of theworld and the countries which upholdindependence and cherish peace instriving to achieve the lofty aim ofcomplete prohibition and thoroughdestruction of nuclear weapons.'

Premier Chou En-!ai returned to thesame theme in his speech at th,e twen-tieth anniversary celebration eveningon 30 September in Peking. He saidthat from the first day of the foundingof the Chinese People's Republic, ' wehave declared explicitly that we firmlystand for the safeguarding of worldpeace and oppose wars of aggression.Ours is a true socialist country and wewill never commit aggression againstothers.'

VISIT TO A COMMUNE

— the story of two victories

The extract below is from Joshua Horn's book 'Away with allpests . . . ' An ex-patient invited Dr Horn to visit his commune,and this is a description of part of the day he spent there. The book,available In mid-November, is published by Paul Hamlyn at 35s.

WE REACHED the cottage wh,ere wewere to have lunch. We sat on thekang, and chatted with the lean youngpeasant who was our host as we atemillet porridge, wheaten pancakes andeggs. ' 1 was born in this village,' hesaid. ' I was just a nipper when OldZhang came here. As soon as I wasold enough, just like all the other lads,I wanted to leave. The trouble was thatthere was no better place to go to.

Everywhere was just as bad. My oldgranny persuaded me to stay. Somehowshe seemed to know that things wouldchange one day. How right she was! Ilove this place now and will neverleave it. My sweat — and the sweat ofmy mates — is on every bit of earthand every stone. It's something beauti-ful, something that will last for ever.That gives you a fine feeling of con-tentment '.

An old peasant, with a week's growthof stubble on his chin, came into thecottage. ' Sit down, uncle,' said ourhost, ' I'm glad you've come. Tell ourguest here about your pig. He'll beinterested.' He turned to me. ' Hisname is Wang Chen and he and hispig have become famous in these parts.'

Old Wang looked embarrassed:' Why should he be interested in thatdefile-mother pig? I wish I'd never seteyes on the animal!'

' He raised that pig from a litter,'said our host, ' and it turned out to bean exceptionally clever animal. Somepeople think pigs are stupid, but they'renot. This one followed Old Wang roundlike a dog. He could find his way homefrom anywhere. Last New Year's Day,Old Wang sold the pig in a marketfifteen miles away, and, believe it ornot, the following evening the pig

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turned up again, his trotters a bit sorebut otherwise none the worse. Andwhat's even more remarkable, a coupleof days later Old Wang took a full dayoff work, went back to the market withhis faithful pig, found the couple whohad bought it from him and returnedit to them. You see, Old Wang, if he'llforgive me for saying so, has a reputa-tion for being rather tight-fisted andeveryone was amazed that he shouldgive up the pig so readily.'

' You're wrong on two counts,' saidOld Wang testily. ' In the first place,I'm not tight-fisted — I'm just careful.If I hadn't been careful I wouldn't havebeen able to keep alive as long as Ihave. In the second place, it wasn'teasy to give up that pig. My old womanheard him snorting and grunting out-side and when she opened the door andhe came trotting in, we looked at eachother with exactly the same thought inour heads. We'd sold the pig once andnow we could sell it again! B.elieve me.is wasn't easy to decide to return thatpig to its rightful owner. My wife andI talked it over half the night beforemaking up our minds.1

' What made you finally decide?' 1asked.

' It's difficult to say ' said Old Wang,unwilling to reveal the conflicts thathad gone on in his mind. ' You see,we'd been learning about what theChairman had to say about being un-selfish and concerned about others andall that. And we knew that the couplewho had bought the pig had lived justthe same kind of life that we had. An-other thing was that only a few days

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before we'd had a meeting to criticisethe former brigade leader for sellinga worn-out wheat grinder, which hadcost us 400 yuan six years ago, for 300yuan. He tried to defend himself bysaying that he had not sold it on hisown behalf but for the brigade as awhole and that he had not sold it to anindividual but to a brigade in the nextcounty. That was true enough, buteverybody said that, whichever wayyou looked at it, it was just capitalistswindling and if every brigade in thecountry were to try and swindle .everyother brigade, we'd certainly never getreal socialism. In the end we made himrefund 150 yuan to the brigade whichhad bought it and since I'd voted infavour of that, how could I keep thepig just because it could find its wayhome?'

By chance, this was the day when thenew irrigation scheme, which had in-volved such Herculean efforts, was dueto come into operation and so, afterlunch, we climbed up to the cisterncut in the rock. A small crowd ofCommune members had gathered forthe opening ceremony. Drums andgongs had been assembled and a choirof Young Pioneers waved their scarletflags and sang lustily. The sun beatdown from the desert of white stoneson the upper slopes. The old men saton the rocks and puffed at their longbrass-bowled pipes. We waited whilethe workmen joined up the last sec-tion of earthenware piping. We waitedwhile the last minutes of an epochticked away. We waited to see theconsummation of an heroic victory.

Soon the work was finished and theoldest member of the Commune — aspruce great-grandmother of 83, whostill insisted on working half-day, gavethe signal to start the electric motoron the other side of the hill.

Nothing happened. A tense silencegripped us. After minutes that seemedlike hours, a few drops of watertrickled from the pipe and disappearedinto the vast empty cistern. Graduallythe trickle became a torrent. Clearmountain water gushed out andechoed back faintly from the rockydepths of the cistern.

Only the children cheered.

The older ones were too moved bythe magnitude of their victory overthe bitter, painful past. Silently theybroke up into groups and walkedhome.

The Party must

lead, sharing

'weal and woe'

with the people

IN A SPECIAL joint article celebratingthe Chinese People's Republic's twen-tieth anniversary, the ' People's Daily.'' Red Flag ' and the ' Liberation ArmyDaily' stress that the three-in-onerevolutionary committees must bestrengthened at all levels.

All revolutionary committees andcadres should maintain close ties withthe masses, says the article, and aswell as having confidence in them, bringtheir creative revolutionary spirit intofuM play. ' All revolutionary cadresmust share weal and woe with themasses of the people and serve themwholeheartedly; they must persist intaking part in collective labour . . .and get rid of bureaucracy and othertendencies of divorcing themselvesfrom the masses.

' Deep-going and constant ideologicaland political work must be done amongthe masses and erroneous tendenciesmust be rectified through reasoningand appropriate criticism so as tostrengthen unity . . .

' The dictatorship of the proletariatis effected through the leadership ofthe Communist Party.

' The whole Party, the whole armyand the people of the whole countryshould rally closely around the CentralCommittee of the Party with ChairmanMao as its leader and Vice-ChairmanLin as its deputy leader, and use MaoTse-tung's Thought to attain unity inthinking, policy, plan, command andaction. We must conscientiously carryout the work of consolidating andbuilding the Party.

' Communist Party members mustkeep to the Party spirit of the pro-letariat and to the Party policy, andmust completely discard the erroneousideas and style of work which runcounter to the interests of the pro-letariat and the broad masses of thepeople; any Party member who doesotherwise is not worthy of thehonoured title of a Communist.'

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The Society celebratesChina's anniversary

ANYONE who has ever organised asocial event will be familiar with thetwo perennial worries —' Is everythingprepared I ' and ' Will anybody turnup? ' The organisers of SACU's 20thAnniversary celebration on 4 Octoberneedn't have worried on either score.

The 180 members and friends frommany countries who came to the Con-way Hall — almost twice as many as atlast year's October Celebration —found plenty to interest them.

After welcoming guests from theOffice of the Charge d'Affaires of theChinese People's Republic, and readinga message from the President of theNew Zealand-China Society, DrJoseph Needham spoke about the tre-mendous strides forward which Chinahas made in the last 20 years.

Unfortunately, the only strides whichBBC radio had myopically managed tosee, in its 'celebration' programme on30 September, were, said Dr Needham,connected with China's knowledge ofnuclear warfare. Nevertheless, they

were thwarted in an attempt to blackenChina completely, for the only peopletaking part in the programme who hadactually lived in China recently, spoke

SACU Presidentelected

At its meeting on 20 SeptemberSACU'S Council of Managementunanimously elected Dr JosephNeedham as the first President ofthe Society. At the same meetingDerek Bryan was elected Chair-man of the Council.

warmly of her achievements and herpeople.

The remainder of the evening's enter-tainment included folk-singing bymembers of the Critics Group, andpoetry-reading given by Michael Sher-ingham, who introduced a selection ofMao's poetry in translation, after open-ing with a well-informed account of

the circumstances in which the poetryof Mao Tse-tung was written.

In between singing, talking andpoetry, guests were able to inspect anexhibition of photographs, supplied bythe Chaige d'Affaires' office in London,illustrating recent technological andmedical developments, and many otherasp,ects of life in China today. Therewas also a wide selection of books andmagazines, posters and records tobrowse through, before the massexodus from the main hall to thedining room began.

Fortified by slices of pork (cookedChin.ese-style), salads (both rice andfruit varieties) and home-made cakes,we settled down once more, this timeto hear David Horn tell of his ex-periences of China, where he lived for15 years before returning toEngland this summer. It was quiteplain from his talk that the Chinesepeople are not only looking forward,but moving forward, in every aspect oftheir lives.

J. Leonard

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In review

The economic viewfrom Hong Kong

Economic Trends in Communist China,edited by Alexander Eckstein, WalterGalenson and Tachung Liu. EdinburghUniversity Press, 120s.

THIS 750-page volume, published lastyear by Edinburgh University Press,recalls in several ways the 500-pageoffering from Hong Kong six years agounder the title ' Economic and SocialProblems of the Far East'. Both origin-ated in a symposium, both containcontributions on practically every as-pect of China's economy, and bothwere pretty dated by the time theyappeared.

But it would be a mistake to as-sume that because they consist of cot-lections of studies by ' capitalist'economists they throw no 'light onwhat has been happening in thePeople's Republic. On the contrary,they are a great deal more perceptivethan, for example, any section of theBritish press, including the acceptedleft-wing communist press as well asthe centre and right.

This may be due in part to a lessblinkered view of history and geog-raphy than is normally encounteredin Britain but it also reflects a generalconsensus that what China has achievedcannot be brushed aside. In fact, thefirst lesson to be learnt from theseworks by American and other scholarsoutside China is that the blind anti-China prejudice and almost total lackof information displayed by politiciansand press in England are by no meansuniversally shared, even amongststaunch opponents of revolution.

Granted all this, however, it is stillremarkable that so many devotedscholars soberly and with one accordbend their efforts in this field and thatto explaining why what the Chinesesay is going on, and what people inChina or visiting China believe theycan see going on, is not happening atall. This book does not fall into thecrudities of denying that there havebeen impressive investment and pro-duction increases in China but thefrigid * objectivity' and scepticism of anumber of its contributors (.eg theexpatriate Chinese T C Liu and K CYeh) lead to heavy and largely sub-jective discounting of all data pub-lished in China.

The proper verdict on such treat-ments is, in fact, suggested by thecomment in the editors' introductorysummary: ' The Liu-Yeh estimate of theoverall average annual rate of growthduring 1952-57 is 6%, 2.5 to 3% lowerthan the Communist claim. Liu andYeh, however, have made extensive ad-justments in the Communist data,especially those on agricultural produc-tion, consumer goods output, and thetraditional sectors of the economy.Such adjustments would have to bebased on assumptions that are inevit-ably more or less arbitrary. . . . How-ever, changes in weather conditionsduring these six years were not takeninto consideration in the Liu-Yeh esti-mate of agricultural output. Their esti-mates of year-to-year changes in thevalue added by agriculture are unlikelyto be very accurate. . . .'

The period surveyed in this sym-posium ends in 1965. !t thus omits theyears of the Cultural Revolution and,equally important, the new lightthrown by the Cultural Revolution onthe conflict of two opposed policieson economic development throughoutthe whole period from 1949.

To some extent the dominance ofSoviet ideas in China was broken after1958 but it is now clear that powerfulforces in the professional and admini-strative hierarchy were still attractedby the Russian type of solution andthat battle continued to rage overcapital-intensive versus labour-intensiveindustry, priority for heavy industry orfor rural industry, and which leg

needed to be strengthened in a policyof ' walking on two legs '.

Does this sound like a doctrinalsquabble between China and the SovietUnion? Actually it lies at the heart ofthe choice that will shape the historyof the world in the last quarter of the20th century. The developing nations—• two-thirds of mankind — have tochoose, if they are going to developat all, between placing their mainemphasis on state-operated large-scaleproduction, financed by the squeezingof agriculture and small-scale localindustry, and the alternative, demon-strated for the first time by Chinasince the Great Leap Forward, of plac-ing the principal emphasis on the agri-cultural sector and small and mediumscale production.

Giving priority to heavy industry,may, on a purely economic calculation,mean faster overall development, but itleads to long deferment of consumerbenefit, wide social differentation and,even then, eventual reliance on foreignaid. In China, the conception of indus-try 'serving the people' has dictateda different approach, though not at thecost of neglecting heavy industry, eitherbefore the Cultural Revolution (asthese studies show) or since.

There is much material in this vol-ume to illumine a discussion on thissubect, but it is left to a future sym-posium to give precise definition to thechoice and evaluate China's contribu-tion in pioneering the ' local as againstcentralised development' element ineconomic growth.

Meanwhile, 'special reference shouldbe made to the most substantial studyin the volume, that by John S Aird, onPopulation Growth, which is requiredreading for those trying to get a pic-ture of the facts in China's population,and their implications.

P A T

Sun Yat-sen-. academic studySun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the

Chinese Revolution, Harold Z.Schiffrin. University of CaliforniaPress. 1968.

THS BOOK is not a biography of SunYet-sen. The author makes his purposeclear —-Sun was the first non-gentryleader of a political movement com-posed mainly of Chinese intellectuals. . . this study is to explain how andunder what conditions Sun attainedthis position of leadership.

The chosen period is 1894 to 1905,ending 20 years before Sun's death. Itis, then, a limited study, not concernedwith the period of significant develop-ment in Sun's thinking.

For this reason it is a little unfor-tunate that the author, in his intro-duction repeats the obsolete judgmentthat Sun was 'not a great thinker',that, ' it was his political style, nothis ideas, which made him unique '.Arnold Toynbee names Sun ' amongstthe most eminent figures on the stageof modern history '; surely not only onaccount of political style?

And when Sun warned the WesternPowers that the first world war wasthe second industrial revolution, he wasexpressing an idea which was uniquein 1918.

But Professor Schiffrin's study is im-portant and some of the material he

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People's war in historicalperspective

DEFEAT IN THE EAST, Michael Elliott-Bateman. Oxford University Press1967. 40s.

THIS IS a valuable addition to thegrowing literature on the ' politico-military science ' of Mao Tse-tung, Theauthor's emphasis lies not so much onthe organisation and administration ofthe People's Liberation Army as onthe politico-military concepts which

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has dug out is valuable for any con-sideration of Sun's early life: thesources are not impeccable—' pertinentclippings from the Hongkong press'may be more acceptable to a sociolo-gist than to an historian. Perhaps Pro-fessor Schiffrin will now be inspiredto write the full scale biography ofSun Yat-sen which students of Chinseehistory are waiting for.

Meanwhile his present study is essen-tially for specialists, who, because theyare specialists, will be hardened to thestyle now popular in some academiccircles — within five pages one notices,' emergency-oriented techniques ', ' for-eign-orientation ', ' action-oriented con-spiracy ', ' western-oriented counter-elite ', and (rather charmingly) ' gentry-oriented combinations'.Bernard Martin

brought it into being and helped sus-tain it through long years of 'bitterstruggle. In the first part of the bookMichael EMiott-Bateman gives his themea broad historical perspective by re-viewing some of the major militaryevents of the last 200 years and assess-ing their ultimate significance. Theapplication of such concepts as posi-tional war, linear war, mobile war, andguerilla war are traced from Napoleon'sgreat campaigns through the first andsecond world wars to the Korean andVietnamese wars of liberation. Alsoanalysed is the relationship that obtainsbetween a society and its militarybureaucracy, the potential conservatismof the latter, and its ultimate effect onthe morale and fighting capacity of theindividual soldier.

Having acquainted us with this usefulbackground, Michael Elliott-Batemanthen proceeds to unfold in detail theorigin, growth and development ofMao's own politico-military conceptsfrom the bleak heights of Chingkang-shan to the establishment of the vic-torious People's Government in Pekingsome 22 years later. He also showswith what devastating success theseconcepts have been adapted andapplied to their own local conditionsby the Vietnamese revolutionaries.And, as he suggests, the patterns couldbe repeated elsewhere.

Among the reasons which attractedthe author to his subject was his ownbelief ' that Mao 'stands in time as theman with the most complete set ofkeys to the secrets of war in this era.'Nonetheless, h a v i n g ' diligentlysearched for British and Americanarmy officers who had a reputation forbeing exponents of Mao' he ' alwaysfound that such people had acquiredtheir superficial knowledge basedgenerally on the slogans attributed toMao Tse-tung, which they repeat atevery opportunity without the remot-est idea how such slogans fit the con-cepts of Mao as a whole — or evenwhat the purposes o'f the slogans are.'Such an indictment cannot how.ever bemade against the author whose ownmilitary background and broad his-torical imagination have combined toproduce an unusually interesting andsuggestive book. It certainly providesa refreshing contrast to the drearystream of muddled ' Pekingology ' sobeioved by pundits of the British andAmerican establishment,

Premen Add/

Schurmanntakes a

second lookIdeology and Organization in Com-

munist China, Franz Schurmann.University of California Press. 1968.47s (paperback).

WHEN ' Ideology and Organization inCommunist China ' first appeared somefour years ago, It was by far the mostincisive and comprehensive book onChinese organization produced since1949. It had however a number ofweaknesses. At that stage the two de-velopmental lines associated withChairman Mao and Liu Shao-chi werenot sufficiently clear for a detailedexamination of the different approachesto organization.

Schurmann consequently paints a pic-ture of China, which is far moreSoviet (Liuist) than was actually thecase. Also, he does not discuss theArmy which in the 1960s was doingmuch to foster the new developmentalmode! of Mao Tse-tung.

His section on ideology, though verystimulating, posits a dichotomy be-tween Marxist-Leninist theory and thepractical ideology of Mao Tse-tungwhich, in the light of recent develop-ment, is difficult to maintain.

Schurmann realises these short-comings and in his revised version doesmuch to correct these mistakes.Nevertheless his short supplement, pro-duced in a hurry and at a time whenhis major attention was focused on theVietnam War and the revolutionarymovement on the Berkeley campus,does not really do justice to the massof new evidence on developments inearlier years that has appeared duringthe Cultural Revolution.

Schurmann is a sociologist, andthough he avoids that science's un-necessary jargon to a degree unpre-cedented in American sociology, hisbook is nevertheless hard reading fora person who is not familiar with basicsociological concepts. It is more areference work than one designed to beread at one sitting.

Despite these very harsh criticisms,Schurmann's book still stands as theone major work on Chinese organiz-ation which for a long time to comewill be required reading for all studentsof China.

Bill Brugger

Chinese Art

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Lesson worthlearning

CHINA PROFILE —A Symposium.Edited by Ross Terrill. FriendshipPress. New York, $1.75.

THIS BOOK is a collection of sevenessays covering different aspects ofChinese life, history and culture. In-tended for 'younger Americans', itsaim is to help them understand theforces which caused the Revolution,and the developments which have takenplace since 1949.

In his introduction, Ross Terrillquotes the comment of Senator Wherryin 1940: 'We shall lift Shanghai up.ever up, until, 'God willing, it will bejust like Kansas City', This, he says,was typical of the self-righteous, pater-nalistic approach which did so much toantagonise China against America andthe West in general.

This antagonism, caused partly bythe Western nations' arrogance andrapacity—partly also by China's tradi-tional view of herself as the centre ofthe civilised world — which made herhumiliation all the more bitter, since itwas inflicted at the hands of ' barbar-ians'— is a recurrent theme through-out the book. Another is the crueltyand corruption on the part of China'sown ruling class which made the suc-cess of the Revolution, when it didcome, inevitable.

The book contains two sympatheticaccounts — both by Australians — of

life in China today. In his concludingessay, the editor—also an Australian— analyses China's relations with therest of the world, comparing her atti-tude towards the Vietnam war with thefeelings Americans would have if Chinawere bombarding Mexico.

He ends by urging the restoration ofChina's place in the United Nations— while warning that it will be useless

to expect her to step into a nichewhich others have prepared. ' She willbring changes to the patterns and philo-sophy of international relations. Shewill contribute concepts of social jus-tice and social organisation. . . . Duringthe lifetime of those who are nowyoung, both the West and the ThirdWorld may be forced to learn fromChina.' Tim Raper

Books receivedTHE INCLUSION of a book under thisheading does not preclude review at alater stage.

CHINESE MEDICINE: by Pierre Huard.Weidenfe'ld & Nicholson (WorldUniversity Library), 1968, 14s.

DOMESTIC ANIMALS OF CHINA: byH Epstein. Commonwealth Agricul-tural Bureaux, 1969. 80s.

A GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN CHINESE:by Yuen Ren Chao. University ofCalifornia Press Ltd, and Ibeg Ltd,London. 1968. 143s.

OUT OF ASIA: by Keith Buchanan.Sydney University Press and Methu-en, London, 1968. 63s.

CONTEMPORARY CHINA: Paperspresented at the University ofGuelph Conference, April, 1968.Canadian Institute of InternationalAffairs. $4.00.

MODERN CHINA'S SEARCH FOR APOLITICAL FORM: edited by JackGray. Published for Chatham House

by Oxford University Press, 1969.75s.

MAO —What They Really Said Series:by Philippe Devi Hers. Macdonald &Co Ltd, 1969. 30s.

Anotherweekendschool?SOME of our members feel that amongthe ways open to us, conductingWeekend Schools is the best means ofintroducing China to those who knowlittle about her. They feel that bothnew members and old members, whomay have friends they wish to interestin China, would benefit from such aschool. We hesitate to embark on sucha project without sounding out ourmembers. Please guide us by letting usknow if you would enjoy attending aWeekend School if we arrange one in1970.

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Wednesday November 19

HOLBORN CENTRAL LIBRARY

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will give the second of the

20th ANNIVERSARY LECTURES

1 ECONOMIC POLICY

IN CHINA'

SACU DIARYNovember

5 Discussion Meeting. Recent slidesabout Tibet (from the Australia-China 'Society). Followed byquestions and discussion. Intro-duced by Premen Addy. 24 War-ren Street, Wl. 730 pm.

7 Cambridge Branch. Film show.' One Fourth of Humanity ' and' A Case to Answer '. Lady Mit-chell Hall. Sidgwick Site. 8 pm.

19 Public Meeting. Joan Robinson,Professor of Economics at Cam-

bridge will give the second of aseries of lectures commemorat-ing the 20th Anniversary of theFounding of the People's Re-public in China. ' EconomicPolicy of China '. Holborn Cen-tral Library, Theobald's Road,WC1. 715 pm.

26 Discussion Meeting, Repeat pro-gramme of Tuesday, 5, Novem-ber.

28 Barnet Branch. PhotographicExhibition showing the impactof the Cultural Revolution onChinese life. Hendon Town Hall,The Burroughs, NW4. 8-10 pm.

Study groupTHE intellectual foundations of MaoTse-tung's Thought.November6 Analysis of pre - Liberation

Society: Mao, Chen Po-taTawney, etc.

13 & The Great Comintern Debate20 — the Road of the Chinese

Revolution: Stalin, Trotsky, M NRoy, Li Li-san, etc.

27 Mao's Road — ' Why Can RedPolitical Power Exist in China? '' The Struggle in the Chingkang-shan ', etc.

December4 The Agrarian Revolution — Land

Reform.11 Hinton's ' Fanshen '.18 The Anti-Japanese United Front.It is anticipated that the Third Session(Jan to April, 1970) will cover Marxistfigures of the 20th century — Lenin,Trotsky, Stalin, 'Gramsci, Luxemburg,Liebnecht, Bukharin, Preobrazhensky,etc., the Russian Revolution, the res-ponse of Capitalism, in particular therise of Fascism. The Fourth Session(April to July, 1970) will deal withChina from Liberation up to the Cul-tural Revolution.

BackgroundnotesBESIDES issuing Joseph Needham'sarticle (see September/October SACUNews) as a press release to appearon the occasion of the 20th anniversaryof the founding of the People's Repub-lic of China, SACU has also preparedsome Information Notes. These coverparticular aspects of political, socialand economic development since 1949.At present the following in this seriesare available:

Foreign PolicyPeople's Liberation Army

Communist Party of ChinaEconomic PolicyIndustryAgriculture

Any member wishing to have copies ofthese Information Notes, please senda large self-addressed envelope toSACU office.

Norman BethuneNovember 12, 1969 will be the 30thAnniversary of the death of DrNorman Bethune. For the Chinesepeople he embodies the spirit of inter-nationalism about which Mao Tse-tungwrote in his well-known article. Nextmonth SACU NEWS will print anarticle in tribute to the memory ofNorman Bethune.

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Air France to ShanghaiAir France weekly service to Shanghai, flown byBoeing Jet Intercontinental, gives businessmen,exporters, diplomats and official travellers fast,direct access to the heart of industrial areas. Theflight leaves Orly, Paris at 11 a.m. on Mondays andthe Boeing reaches Shanghai on Tuesdays at3.30 p.m. The return flight departs Shanghai onTuesdays at 6.20 p.m. and arrives at Orly at11.30 a.m. Wednesday. London-Shanghai jet eco-nomy return fare is £461.3.0. (1st class return£789.4.0.Air France is the first West European airline to begranted a route to Shanghai, and the new servicebrings to seven the total number of flights a weekby the company to the Far East. Countries served byAir France include Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand,Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Phillipines,

Japan—and now the People's Republic of China.Destination in many of these countries may be usedas stop-over points on your journey to Shanghai.Full details can be obtained from your Travel Agentor nearest Air France office.

AIR FRANCE, 1S8 NEW BOND STREET. W.I. GRO 8O3O

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