Author: anonymous [China]
Title: a manuscript diary by a leader of a Production and Construction Corps regiment, 1965-1966
Description: 1965-1966. orig.boards. 20x13cm, 199 pp.. Rubbed. Interior hinge cracks. Good. ¶ This ia a handwitten diary authored by the leader of a Production and Construction Corps regiment, entirely in Chinese, dating from late 1965 to early 1966. Records many details of Production and Construction Corps activities as well as political affairs in the period immediately before Mao's launching of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in May 1966. ["Before the Cultural Revolution, the Production and Construction Corps was a paramilitary organization of 3 to 4 million people under joint government, party, and PLA control. The Production and Construction Corps was used in remote and unproductive areas to build roads, reclaim land, construct defense and water works, and operate mines, state farms, and industrial plants. A secondary role was border defense, and some units were armed with light infantry weapons. All received basic military training. Unlike the militia, Production and Construction Corps personnel were full time and uniformed. The PLA took over the Production and Construction Corps during the Cultural Revolution, then civilianized it in the 1970s. In the 1980s the corps appeared to have been abolished except in Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region" - wikipedia].

Keywords: Chinese Political History, Communist China, Communism, Politics Economics, Production Corps, Maoist Maoism, East Asia, Manuscript Diary, Diaries