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The Mass Line in China

Including Articles from China on the Mass Line and/or Having a Mass Perspective

      This section is devoted to information about the use of the mass line in China, and to articles from China about the mass line and/or having a mass perspective (other than those by Mao himself which are in a separate section).

• Special Articles and Essays:

  • “The Mass Line”, by Dr. Joshua Horn. A moving lecture which Dr. Horn gave in New York in 1971, and which was included as the introductory essay in the pamphlet Health Care in China, (Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute, Modern China Series No. 8, 1976). This lecture brings out aspects of what it means to have a mass perspective as well as providing some concrete examples of using the mass line method of leadership in medical and health work.

• Articles from Peking Review (renamed Beijing Review in the late 1970s):

  • “The Masses Are the Makers of History”, by Tien Chih-sung, Issue #29, July 21, 1972.
  • “Cadres Studying Marxism-Leninism: Theory Is the Guide to Practice”, Issue #41, Oct. 13, 1972.
  • “Cadres Studying Marxism-Leninism: Revolutionary Theory of Reflection”, Issue #46, Nov. 17, 1972.
  • “Always Be One of the Working People: Notes on studying ‘The Civil War in France’”, by Wei Feng-ying, Issue #50, Dec. 15, 1972.
  • “Having Faith in and Relying on the Majority of the Masses”, by An Chun, Issue #14, April 6, 1973.
  • “Practising Economy: A Principle of Socialist Economics”, by Chi Ching, Issue #18, May 4, 1973.
  • “Revolution and Development (IV): Mass Line in Road Building”, by Chiang Shan-hao, Issue #4, Jan. 25, 1974.
  • “Building Oil Industry Through Self-Reliance — A visit to the new oil pipeline as well as Taching and Takang Oilfields (II)”, by Hsiang Jung and Yu Hai, Issue #2, Jan. 10, 1975.
  • “Chairman Mao on Mao Zedong Thought”, Issue #2, Jan. 14, 1980. This article shows a relatively early attempt by the revisionists to put their own systematic spin on Mao’s writings. However, there are some interesting quotations from Mao on the mass line here which the revisionists entirely fail to correctly understand.
  • [More to be added later.]

• Other articles:

  • [May be added later.]