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Archive of the Mao Era

Archive of the Mao Era represents the most ambitious extant effort in North America to digitize Mao-era materials that have made their way into research libraries and private collections, often without any knowledge of librarians or researchers.

The 2026 Offer

The 2026 offer contains 165 publications and over 17,000 pages of content.

  • Date coverage: 1949–1976
  • Content types: Party publications, ethnic minority surveys, government documents, military reports, propaganda publications, posters, statistical reports, scientific research, conference proceedings

East View will continue to digitize these works on an annual basis according to demand and continued support by academic libraries.

Archive of the Mao Era

Key Stats

  • Date Coverage: 1949-1976
  • Publications: 165
  • Language: Chinese
  • City: Minneapolis
  • Country: USA
  • Format: PDF, page-based
  • Producer: East View Information Services
  • Platform: East View Archive Editions

Representative titles from the Archive of the Mao Era collection include:

  • 第一屆全國出版會議紀念刊 (Commemorative Publication of the First National Publishing Conference, 1950)
  • 抗美援朝戰傷處理文集 (Anthology of Treatment of War Injuries to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, 1952)
  • 中华人民共和国科学技术协会第一次全国代表大会彙刊 (Proceedings of the First National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, 1958)
  • 偉大祖國的忠實兒女 全國青年社会主义建設積極分子簡要事蹟 (Loyal Sons and Daughters of Our Great Motherland: Brief Deeds of National Youth Activists in Socialist Construction, 1955)
  • 裕固族简史简誌合編 (A Brief History of the Yugu Ethnicity, 1959)
  • 江蘇省震村調查 華東震村經濟資料第一分冊 (Survey of Townships and Villages in Jiangsu Province: Economic Data of Townships and Villages in East China, Vol. 1, 1952)
  • 發展國民經济第一個五年計划执行結果的資料(附:統計提要)(Data on the Results of the Implementation of the First Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy: Statistical Summary, 1958)
  • 新疆維吾爾自治区十年來敎育工作总結彙編 1950-1959年 (Summary of Education Work in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Over the Past Ten Years 1950-1959, 1959)

Archive of the Mao Era is created on the Archive Editions platform. Documents are richly tagged and dynamically discoverable, with the following features:

  • At-a-glance views of the chronological coverage of the materials
  • Menus for richly tagged people, places, historical topics, and document types found within the collection
  • Browseable lists, cross-referenced with facet filters

The archive is cross-searchable with these Archive Editions collections:

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