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U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association
Documents, Magazines and Pamphlets from the 1970s
The U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association was formed on a national basis in 1974, largely under the impetus of revolutionary-minded Americans who were enthusiastic about the Chinese Revolution and especially Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which had recently occurred in China. (The earlier regional organization, the New York U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association began in August 1971, and other regional groups also started from around that time forward.)
After Mao’s death, and during the following years as it gradually became more and more obvious that China was fast changing from a socialist country back into a capitalist one, the composition of the USCPFA qualitatively changed, and the tone of the political materials produced by it strongly shifted away from sympathy for world proletarian revolution and into apologetics for the new bourgeois regime in China. This is already apparent in some of the materials below from 1977-1979.
From 1974 until 1979 the USCPFA published a magazine called New China, which featured articles on Chinese revolutionary politics as well as many on Chinese culture. Beginning in 1981 it began publishing a new magazine, U.S.-China Review which of course has had a very different political line.
During the early more revolutionary-minded period, the USCPFA also issued a number of pamphlets on important political questions. We will try to gather together these pamphlets and the issues of New China and post them here.
If you have access to other appropriate materials which can be scanned and posted here, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Pamphlets:
- “In China, Managers Work!”, text by the U.S.-China Friendship Association of the San Francisco Bay Area, with many well drawn cartoon illustrations and photographs, United Front Press (San Francisco), c. 1971, 24 pages. PDF format [1,417 KB]
- “The Taiwan Question: Roadblock to Friendship”, USCPFA Pamphlet Series Number 1, August 1975, 16 pages. PDF Format [1,232 KB]
- “Opium and China: New China Kicked the Habit”, USCPFA Pamphlet Series Number 2, August 1975, 24 pages. PDF Format [1,897 KB]
- “Chou En-lai: Conversations with Americans”, by Bill Hinton, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]
- “Black Man in the New China”, by John Oliver Killens, USCPFA China Reprint Series, August 1976, 24 pages. PDF Format [1,613 KB]
- “Deep Roots in Two Countries”, by James Veneris, USCPFA China Reprint Series, 1977, 14 pages. PDF Format [1,595 KB]
- “Down in the Kailan Mines — Chinese Workers: Past and Present”, by Jack Chen and Janet Goldwasser, USCPFA China Reprint Series, n.d. (c. 1977), 24 pages + cover. PDF Format [1,871 KB]
- “From A-bombs to Agriculture”, by Joan Hinton, USCPFA China Series. [Not yet available.]
- “Remembering Koji Ariyoshi: An American GI in Yanan”, by Hugh Deane, USCPFA China Series, (Beijing: FLP, 2004 [reprint]), 153 pages. Searchable PDF Format [3,397 KB]
- “Freedom Railway: China and the Tanzania-Zambia Link”, by Martin Bailey, USCPFA China Reprint Series, (London: Rex Collings, 1976), 188 pages. Searchable PDF format [6,653 KB]
- “Americans Talk about U.S.-China Relations”, USCPFA China Reprint Series. [Not yet available.]
- “They All Look So Healthy! — An Introduction to Health Care in the People’s Republic of China”, USCPFA China Series Number 6, August 1978, 40 pages. PDF Format [2,423 KB]
- “China and Indochina: The Realities Behind the Headlines”, pamphlet issued by the New York chapter of the USCPFA, March 8, 1979, 24 pages. PDF Format [2,047 KB]
- “China and SALT II: Questions and Answers”, Educational Pamphlet No. 1 of the New York chapter of the USCPFA, n.d. (but probably late 1979), 6 pages. PDF Format [786 KB]
- “Refugees from Viet Nam: China’s View”, Educational Pamphlet No. 2 of the New York chapter of the USCPFA, n.d. (but probably late 1979), 6 pages. PDF Format [960 KB]
New China Magazine (1974-1979):
- 1974:
- Preliminary Concept Issue, 36 pages. PDF Format [6,581 KB]
- 1975:
- Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,936 KB]
- Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 1978), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,822 KB]
- Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1975), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,752 KB]
- 1976:
- Vol. 1, No. 4 (January 1976), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,802 KB]
- Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 1976), 48 pages. PDF Format [8,372 KB]
- Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 1976), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,623 KB]
- Vol. 2, No. 3 (December 1976), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,643 KB]
- 1977:
- Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1977), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,907 KB]
- Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,814 KB]
- Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall 1977), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,799 KB]
- Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 1977), 36 pages. PDF Format [6,206 KB]
1978 Calendar pull-out supplement with this issue, with very nice wood-block prints (pp. 19-26): Calendar in PDF Format [3,187 KB]- 1978:
- Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1978), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,985 KB]
- Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1978), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,638 KB]
- Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 1978), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,829 KB]
- Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1978), 48 pages. PDF Format [7,840 KB]
- 1979:
- Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1979), 48 pages. PDF Format [8,437 KB] [The paper of many of the pages of the copy we scanned appears to have darkened over the years. Our apologies.]
New York U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association (1971-1974):
- CHINA & US newsletter:
- Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 1972), 4 pages. PDF format [510 KB]
- Miscellaneous materials:
- “‘October 1st’ Celebration of the 24th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China”, mimeographed program from the 1973 meeting in New York City, 11 pages. PDF format [666 KB]
American Friends of China in Europe: [We have no further information about this group and its history.]
- China Report bulletin of the AFCE:
- Vol. 1, No. 1 (January-February 1973), 4 pages. PDF format [640 KB]