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Banned or Difficult to Find Books and Articles
This page is devoted to making available the banned or very difficult to find books, articles and other works by a number of important international journalists. These journalists often reported from different countries at different times, and for that reason it seems better to make their work available here. (There are often links to their works within the individual country sections of BannedThought.net as well, when those works relate to that country specifically.)
This section of BannedThought.net is just getting started, and we hope to greatly expand it in the future.
If you know of other books, articles or other items by radical or revolutionary journalists, which are suppressed or at least very difficult to find, and which should therefore be posted here, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Burchett, Wilfred G. (1911-1983)
[Australian journalist sympathetic to radical and communist revolutions, who especially focused on the Vietnamese Revolution.]
- [Book:] Democracy With a Tommygun, (Melbourne/London: 1946), 300 pages. With reports on events, struggles and revolutions at the end of World War II in China, India, Burma, Australia, the Philippines and Japan. PDF format [15,028 KB]
- [Book:] China’s Feet Unbound, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952), 196 pages. Searchable PDF format [29,748 KB]
Myrdal, Jan (1927- )
- 1970s:
- “A New Look Into Mao’s China”, by Jan Myrdal, Look magazine, February 10, 1970, 8 pages. PDF format [5,826 KB]
- [Book:] Albania Defiant, by Jan Myrdal and Gun Kessle, (NY: Monthly Review, 1976), 250 pages. Searchable PDF format [7,467 KB]
- 2010s:
- “What Does It Mean to Be a Marxist? Hari Sharma and the Marxist Tradition”, by Jan Myrdal, Critical Asian Sudies magazine, vol. 45, #1 (2013), 14 pages. PDF format [687 KB]
Smedley, Agnes (1892-1950)
- 1950:
- “Terror Bombing in China” — Agnes Smedley’s last article, along with a short tribute to her by James Aldridge, Labour Monthly [Britain], vol. 32, #7, July 1950, 4 pages. PDF format [381 KB]
Snow, Edgar (1905-1972)
- 1940s:
- [Book:] “The Battle for Asia”, by Edgar Snow. (NY: 1941), 460 pages (missing pages 411-412). The special focus is on the war against Japan in China, and includes a lot information about the Communist forces and their actions and views. Searchable PDF format [16,074 KB]
- [Book:] “Glory and Bondage”, by Edgar Snow, written in 1944 with interesting reportage of events during World War II, focusing on Russia, Stalingrad and the Eastern Front, but also with material on India, China and Burma. (London: 1945), 272 pages. PDF format [17,252 KB]
- [Book:] “The Pattern of Soviet Power”, by Edgar Snow, Long out of print, mostly on the Soviet Union in World War II, but includes material on Eastern Europe, China, and other topics. (NY: Random House, 1945), 254 pages. Searchable PDF format [16,338 KB]
- 1970s-1980s:
- “A Conversation with Mao Tse-tung”, by Edgar Snow, Life magazine, April 30, 1971, 3 pages. PDF format [1,953 KB]
- “What China Wants from Nixon’s Visit: China will talk from a position of strength”, by Edgar Snow, Life magazine, July 30, 1971, 9 pages (including introduction, photos and magazine cover page photo of Chou En-lai). PDF format [5,576 KB]
- [Book:] “Edgar Snow’s China: A Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution Compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow”, by Lois Wheeler Snow. (NY: 1981), 304 pages. This important volume, unfortunately long out of print, includes a great number of rare photographs and is as much a photo history of the Chinese Revolution as it is a written history in the words of Edgar Snow. Searchable PDF format [Very large file: 63,929 KB]
Strong, Anna Louise (1885-1970)
- 1927:
- [Book:] “China’s Millions: Revolution in Central China, 1927”, by Anna Louise Strong, (Peking: New World Press, 1965), 206 pages. This is a re-issue of the 1927 volume which was the first of a projected six volume set of her Selected Works on China’s Revolution. [We do not know if the other projected volumes were published later.] PDF format [12,061 KB]
- 1948:
- [Book:] “Tomorrow’s China”, by Anna Louise Strong, (NY: Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, 1948), 133 pages. PDF Format [10,824 KB]
- 1956:
- [Book:] “The Stalin Era”, by Anna Louise Strong, (NY: Mainstream Publishers, 1956), 132 pages. [Scan of better copy than before.] PDF format [6,433 KB]
- 1959:
- [Book:] “When Serfs Stood Up In Tibet”, by Anna Louise Strong, (San Francisco: Red Sun Publishers, 1976), 370 pages. [Originally published by New World Press, Peking, in 1959.] Searchable PDF format [17,513 KB] Also available in HTML format in separate chapters on the Marxist Internet Archive at: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1959/tibet/index.htm
- 1963:
- “China’s Fight for Grain”, by Anna Louise Strong, (Peking: New World Press, 1963), 59 pages. PDF format [2,810 KB]
- 1964:
- [Book:] “The Rise of the Chinese People’s Communes—And Six Years After”, by Anna Louise Strong, (Peking: New World Press, 1964), 258 pages. PDF format [11,252 KB]
- [Book:] “Letters From China: Numbers 11-20”, by Anna Louise Strong, (Peking: New World Press, 1964), 186 pages. (Missing interior title page; otherwise complete.) PDF format [9,152 KB]
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