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The Chinese Constitution of 1975

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

John Gardner
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Government and Opposition , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1976 , pp. 212 - 223
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1976

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References

1 An English translation of the Common Programme and the Organic Law is to be found in Chen, T. H. E. (ed.), The Chinese Communist Regime: Documents and Commentary, London, 1967, pp. 34–51 Google Scholar.

2 For an English translation see ibid., pp. 75–92; or Triska, J. F. (ed.), Constitutions of the Communist Party States, Stanford, California, 1968, pp. 89–122 Google Scholar.

3 My emphasis.

4 Mao, , ‘On the People's Democratic Dictatorship’ (20 June 1949), in Selected Works of Mao Tse‐tung, Vol. IV, Peking, 1961, pp. 411–23Google Scholar.

5 See Jerome Cohen, ‘The Party and the Courts 1949–1959’, in The China Quarterly, No. 38, pp. 120–57.

6 See Jürgen Domes, ‘The Role of the Military in the Formation of Revolutionary Committees, 1967–68’, in The China Quarterly, No. 44, pp. 112–45.

7 For an English translation of the 1975 Constitution and related documents, see Peking Review, No. 4, 1975.

8 According to one Central Committee document of September 1970, the Politburo had begun preparations for the revision of the Constitution in March of that year. See Issues and Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 5, 1972, p. 100.

9 Schurmann, Franz, Ideology and Organisation in Communist China, Berkeley, California, 1966, p. 110 Google Scholar.

10 For an English translation of the tenth Party Constitution, see Peking Review, No. 35. 1973.

11 My emphasis.