Compiled and annotated by Tien-Yi Li

The Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, 1954

Mirror Series C, No. 6 

This volume is a sequel to The Dictatorship of the People's Democracy, an annotated text published in 1951 by the Institute of Far Eastern Languages.   This book consists of 8 selections, varied in legnth and diversified in subject matter.  

(1) abridged version of Maeo Tse-tung's On the New Democracy,  a pamphlet of paramount historical importance which first appeared in 1940 and has gone through many editions since then. 

(2) + (3) two historically significant speeches delivered by the highest Chinese communist leader, are taken from the book entitled Documents on the Correction of Unorthodox Tendencies

(4) complete reproduction of the third section of Chu Teh's On the War Fronts in the Liberated Areas, a report made on April 25, 1945 at the Seventh Congress of the Chinese Communist Party 

(5) essay originally included in the work The Present Situation and Our Tasks

(6) selection from A Collection of Important Documents on Land Reform

(7) introductory part of The Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party

(8) selection from the collection Important Documents on the First Plendary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultatitive Council

All these selections are representative pieces of communist literature on various important problems, political, social, economic, military, as well as ideological.  They should be of interest to all students of Chinese affairs.  As usual, however, we are here primarily interested in their language.  Terms and expressions which cannot be easily found in dictionaries in ordinary use have all been annotated.  It is hoped that with the aid of the notes, the Chinese language student will encounter no great difficulty in reading these materials and that after finishing this volume he will understand readily the writings of any contemporary communist leader or theorist.