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Red Flag
December 1967 issue, ""Advancing along the Road Opened by the October Socialist Revolution"
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyBimonthly
PublisherChinese Communist Party
Founded1958
Final issueJuly 1988
CountryChina
Based inBeijing
LanguageChinese
ISSN0441-4381
OCLC1752410

The Red Flag (Chinese: 红旗; pinyin: Hóngqí) was a journal on political theory, published by the Chinese Communist Party.[1] It was one of the "Two Newspapers and One Magazine" during the 1960s and 1970s.[2][3] The newspapers were People's Daily and Guangming Daily.[3] People's Liberation Army Daily is also regarded as one of them.[4]

History and profile

Red Flag was started during the Great Leap Forward era[2] in 1958.[1][5] The journal was the successor to another journal, Study (Chinese: Xuexi).[6] The title of Red Flag was given by Mao Zedong.[1] Chen Boda was the editor of the journal,[6] which served as a crucial media outlet during the Cultural Revolution.[1][7] In 1966, Pol Pot formed a similar magazine with the same name in Cambodia in Khmer, Tung Krahom, modelled on Red Flag.[8]

During the 1960s, Red Flag temporarily ended publication, but was restarted in 1968.[9] The frequency of the journal was monthly between its start in 1958 and 1979.[6] It was published bi-monthly from 1980 to 1988.[6]

Red Flag covered theoretical arguments supported by the party.[2] It also published articles on the views of the party about the Communist parties in other countries. For instance, in March 1963 the speech of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, at the 10th Congress was discussed and evaluated in detail.[10]

In May 1988 Chinese officials announced that the journal would be closed.[11] Finally, it ceased publication in June 1988, and was succeeded by Qiushi (Chinese: Seeking Truth).[1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "China to Furl Red Flag, Its Maoist Theoretical Journal". Los Angeles Times. Beijing. 1 May 1988. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Cynthia Leung; Jiening Ruan (2012). Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China. Springer Netherlands. p. 52. ISBN 978-94-007-4821-7.
  3. ^ a b Robert B. Kaplan; Richard B. Baldauf (2008). Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters. Bristol; Buffalo; Toronto: Multilingual Matters. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84769-095-1.
  4. ^ “两报一刊”有《光明日报》吗. CNKI.
  5. ^ a b "About Qiushi Journal". Qiushi. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d Lawrence R. Sullivan (2007). Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-8108-6443-6.
  7. ^ Kevin Latham (2007). Pop Culture China!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford: ABC-CLIO. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-85109-582-7.
  8. ^ Odd Arne Westad; Sophie Quinn-Judge (2006). The Third Indochina War: Conflict Between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79. London; New York: Routledge. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-134-16776-0.
  9. ^ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. February 1969. p. 86.
  10. ^ Carlotta Clivio (2019). "Neither for, nor against Mao: PCI-CCP interactions and the normalisation of Sino-Italian Relations, 1966–71". Cold War History. 19 (3): 383. doi:10.1080/14682745.2018.1529758.
  11. ^ Roderick MacFarquhar (1997). The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-521-58863-8.
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