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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
The first and the largest subscription-based online and CD-ROM / USB database on the subject:
- Includes four closely related sub-databases:
– Database of the Chinese Political Campaigns in the 1950s: From Land Reform to State-Private Joint Ownership (1949–1956)
– The Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database (1957–)
– The Chinese Great Leap Forward / Great Famine Database (1958–1962)
– The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database (1966–1976)
- Nearly 40,000 documents, including CCP directives, bulletins, internal reports, leaders’ speeches, major media commentaries, and important mass publications with detailed citations;
- First-hand sources totaling 100 million Chinese characters meticulously collated;
- Material of rare value, of which 40% is from internal archives at various levels, including 2,000 highly classified records and investigative reports filed during many movements;
- Fully functional search-engine in both Chinese and English: data retrievable by author, subject, titles, date, keywords, and locality;
- Features such as print, keyword highlight, and toggle between Chinese and English;
Online Edition
- Allowing campus-wide access with remote log-in and download functions;
- Timely database update when new materials become available
Database of the Chinese Political Campaigns in the 1950s: From Land Reform to State-Private Joint Ownership (1949–1956)
- Comprehensive and accurate primary sources: more than 10,000 entries, including government documents, CCP directives, bulletins, internal reports, speeches by Mao and other CCP officials, major newspaper editorials, etc.
- Huge data scope: the first-hand sources totaling 60 million words meticulously collated;
- Precious historical records, of which 50% is from internal archives at various levels, including 1,000 classified records and investigative reports about the Land Reform;
- Covering a larger context of all political campaigns in the 1950s: In addition to the Land Reform, the database includes original documents from campaigns for grain requisition; struggle against local despots; government bond sales promotion; Korean War, Suppressing Counterrevolutionaries; opposing localism; eliminating political rumors; “Three Selves” in Religion; Ideological Remolding; judicial reform; Loyalty and Honesty to the Party; Three Antis and Five Antis; state monopoly on grain purchase and marketing; Collectivization of Agriculture; Criticizing Gao-Rao Anti-Party Alliance; Criticizing Hu-Feng Counterrevolutionary Clique; Eliminating Counterrevolutionaries; and Establishing State-Private Joint Ownership
The Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database 1957
- Comprehensive and accurate primary sources: more than 12,000 entries, including government documents, CCP directives, bulletins, speeches by Mao Zedong and other CCP officials, major newspaper editorials, published Rightist views and their denunciations, etc.
- Precious historical records: nearly 6,000 original Rightist archives and articles. Most of CCP documents are highly classified, such as nearly one hundred entries of the Compilation of Situation Briefing’s (Rectification) by the General Office of the CCP Central Committee.
- Constantly updated: Compared with the 2010 online edition, there are nearly 30 million more words of material in this edition;
- Before and after: in addition to the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the database provides materials on other related campaigns as well, such as the campaigns for Eliminating Counterrevolutionaries; Criticizing Hu-Feng Counterrevolutionary Clique; Socialist Transformation of Industry and Commerce; Great Debate on Red and Expert; “Three Antis and Five Antis”; Opening One’s Heart to the Party; Pulling Out White Flags and Erecting Red Flags, and so on.
The Chinese Great Leap Forward ─Great Famine Database (1958–1962)
- More than 7,000 documents, including CCP directives, bulletins, internal reports, leaders’ speeches, and major media commentaries with detailed citations;
- First-hand sources totaling 30 million words meticulously collated;
- Material of rare value, of which 50% are internal archival documents from archives at various administrative levels, including 3,000 highly classified records and investigative reports filed during the Great Famine;
- Covering a larger context of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine, the database includes documents on policies and campaigns for the state monopoly on purchasing and marketing grain, Collectivization of Agriculture, Eliminating Counterrevolutionaries, Establishing State Private Joint Ownership, Criticizing Right Opportunism.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database (1966–1976)
- All contents are original documents from the Cultural Revolution era, including CCP instructions, proclamations, bulletins; speeches by CCP leaders; important newspaper editorials, and mass organization
publications;
- About 10,000 first hand Chinese archival documents with up to 60 million words; since 2006, newly added documents with about 20 million words;
- Newly added parts: “VIII. Miscellaneous Cultural Revolution Chronicles” and “IX. Special Archives: Self-Examinations, Confessions, Appeals, Guilty Pleas, Testaments/Suicide Notes and etc. during the Cultural Revolution”.
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