Gongchandang danzhang ("Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party").

COMMUNISM.

Published by Shexian: Taihang qunzhing shudian ("Taihang People's Bookstore"), 1947

About this Item

First edition thus. Passed at the party's seventh congress in 1945, the constitution for the first time formalized "Mao Zedong Thought" as the guiding ideology of Chinese communism. Following the historic congress, the new constitution was disseminated by local printers in the rural base areas under party control. This example was issued in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, near the capital of the strategically important Shanxi-Hobei-Shandong-Henan "liberated zone." In 1948, Mao took up residence in nearby Xibaipo, where he lived until his triumphant entry into Beijing in March 1949. This first printing dates to September 1947. Subsequent printings appeared in December 1947 and several times in 1948, but they did not have a frontispiece. Rural printers had access to only the most rudimentary facilities, and the vast majority of base-area publications have now perished. Octavo, pp. [ii], 27, [1]. Half-tone frontispiece portrait of Mao, decoration above table of contents. Text in Chinese. Original illustrated wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Tidemark at head of volume, spine worn, split at head of front joint, chip to front cover, several gatherings uncut: a very good copy, typical of publications printed in the Chinese Communist Party's rural base areas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gongchandang danzhang ("Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party").
• Publisher: Shexian: Taihang qunzhing shudian ("Taihang People's Bookstore"), 1947
• Edition: 1st Edition