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Maoism and Inter-Party Relations: Peking's Alienation of the Japan Communist Party

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Sheldon W. Simon
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The revolutionary Japanese artists have several times revised parts of the historical play Prairie Fire which they have been staging during their tour of China. It depicts the Japanese peasants' uprising in 1848, and they have made changes in it, in accordance with Mao Tse-tung's thought, to bring out even more clearly the armed struggle waged by the peasants. They have added a magnificent new scene at the end of the play. Amidst the singing of “The East is Red” and “The Internationale”, a great image of Chairman Mao appears on the backdrop, and the Japanese people, holding red-covered Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung and also spears and rifles, all turn to Chairman Mao.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 35 , September 1968 , pp. 40 - 57
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1968

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