Chronicle of the History of the People's Republic of China. Volume 1950

Author: Institute of Contemporary China Studies
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features:
"The main text" strives for conciseness and accuracy, capable of verification. "The subtext" narrates the causes and developments of events, aiming for completeness and objectivity, with no unrelated descriptions or comments. The references are based on the selection range of Selected Important Documents since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, primarily including documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, important national laws and regulations, conference resolutions, important speeches, telegrams of leaders of the Party and the state, and significant editorials and articles in People's Daily with overall guiding significance at the time, avoiding chaos.
Annotations are divided into three types:
1. Name and Place Annotations:
2. Research Annotations: Analyze and compare various accounts and different viewpoints regarding a single event, explaining the adopted version and the reasons for its adoption.
3. Background Annotations: Due to the daily-entry format, long-term background information that cannot be covered in the "subtext" is annotated to help readers understand the causes of events.
This volume appropriately increases the number of illustrations compared to the 1949 volume. The compilation focuses not only on major events but also maintains the completeness of event trails, recording details of each event day by day and month by month, which, when strung together annually, form the basic outline of the events. These events mainly include:
- Mao Zedong's visit to the Soviet Union and the signing of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance;
- The Third Plenary Session of the 7th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China;
- The decision-making process of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China regarding the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and the three major battles;
- Domestic anti-U.S. aggression and safeguarding the motherland movement;
- Major events of the democratic parties;
- Land reform in new areas;
- The second session of the First National People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Party and government at all levels helping handicrafts and commerce overcome operational difficulties;
- Victory over various natural disasters in various regions;
- Large-scale reclamation and production by the armed forces;
- Social assistance to unemployed workers;
- Reform of the education system;
- Establishment of scientific research institutions;
- Development of mass health care work, as well as all aspects of press, publishing, ethnic affairs, religious affairs, social affairs, and mass organizations;
- In foreign relations, major events include the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and other people's democratic countries and neighboring countries, as well as China-U.S., China-Soviet, and China-United Nations relations and negotiations, with particular attention to incorporating newly released archives, biographies, chronicles, and diaries from domestic and international sources.