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According to data published by the State Statistical Bureau in 1959 in
435
Th e Te n Gr e a t Ye a rs — S t a t i st i c s o f t h e A c h i e v e me n t s i n t h e E c o n o mi c
and Cultural Construction of the People’s Republic of China, modern industry ac-
counted for about 17 per cent of the gross output value of industry and agriculture
in 1949. p. 355
See Note 419 above. p. 356
436
437 Guangzhou was then the seat of the Executive Yuan of the Kuomintang gov-
ernment. Xikou is situated in Fenghua County, Zhejiang Province. After Chiang
Kai-shek announced his “resignation”, he resided in Xikou and manipulated the
Kuomintang reactionaries’ sabotage of the peace talks from behind the scenes, con-
tinuing to oppose the people. p. 356
438 Aft e r t he Oc t obe r Re vol ut i on of 191 7, B ri t a i n , Fra nc e , Ja pa n, t he Un i t e d
States and other imperialist countries launched armed interventions in Soviet Russia.
The troops of the United States landed in north and east Russia, occupying, among
other places, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk and Vladivostok. These troops were withdrawn
piecemeal only in 1919 and 1920. p. 361
439 Fu Jingbo was then a private advisor to Leighton Stuart, U.S. ambassador
to China. p. 362
440 “Shaoxing aides” was an appellation applied to people such as court clerks
and revenue clerks working in government offices in old China. Since people from
Shaoxing were over-represented in such posts, the term came to be used for all such
non-official functionaries. p. 363
441 See History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short
Course, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow, 1951, Chapter 4, Section 2, pp. 165-206. p. 368
442 The First National Youth Congress was held in Beiping May 4-10, 1949.
The All-China Federation of Democratic Youth was founded at the congress. It
was later renamed the All-China Youth Federation. p. 370
443 Fan Wenlan (1893-1969) was a Marxist historian. He was then serving con-
currently as vice-president of North China University and director of its research
department. At the Party’s Eighth and Ninth National Congresses, he was elected
an alternate member and then a full member of the Central Committee. p. 372
444 Mao Zedong’s report, “The Present Situation and Our Tasks”, at a meeting
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. See Selected Works of Mao
Zedong, Eng. ed., FLP, Beijing, 1967, Vol. IV, pp. 157-76. p. 375
445 V. I. L e ni n, “ A Gre a t Be gi nni ng” , Col l e c t e d Work s, E ng. e d., Progre ss
Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Vol. XXIX, p. 428. p. 375
446 The National Congress of Workers in Literature and Art was held in Beiping,
July 2-19, 1949. It summed up the experience in literary and art work since the
publication of Mao Zedong’s Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art in
1942, laid down the principles and set the tasks for literary and art work under the
new conditions, and founded a unified national organization for literary and art
circles, the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. p. 383
447 The National Association for Literature and Art, or the National Anti-
Japanese Association for Literary and Art Circles (popularly known as the Associa-
tion for Literature and Art), was founded in Hankou in March 1938 as a united front
organization rallying all anti-Japanese literary and art workers under the leadership
of the Communist Party. Zhou Enlai was elected an honorary member of the
council of the association, and Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Lao She and 42 others were
elected members of the council. The association unfolded resistance-oriented literary