On December 16, a set of 8 volumes of "The Original Initial Heart - A Compilation of the Early Publications of the Party" was held at the Memorial Hall of the Second National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In this Shikumen house called "Fudri", it was here that the Party's first publishing institution, the People's Publishing House, was born 100 years ago.
Shanghai is the birthplace of the party's publishing career. In September 1920, the "New Youth" was restored to printing in Shanghai, in November 1920, the first party journal of the Communist Party of China, "The Communist Party", was published in Shanghai, the Chinese translation of the "Communist Manifesto" was published in Shanghai, and the first "Party Constitution" was born in Shanghai... During the period of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the Great Revolution and the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Shanghai was the party's publishing center; during the period of the national war of resistance, Shanghai was the party's publishing town; and during the period of national victory in the new democratic revolution, Shanghai was the party's publishing fortress. From the founding of the Party to the victory of the revolution, Shanghai has always been the red publishing highland with the largest number of revolutionary and progressive publishing institutions, the largest number of publishers and the largest number of achievements under the leadership of the Party.
According to preliminary statistics, from the establishment of the founding group of the Communist Party of China in 1920 to the order of the Publishing Department of the Shanghai Provisional Central Bureau in 1935, only about 150 kinds of books published by the New Youth Society, the People's Publishing House, the Shanghai Bookstore, the Yangtze River Bookstore, the Proletarian Bookstore, the Huaxing Bookstore and other publishing institutions directly founded and led by the Central Committee have been verified. Confined to the white terror practiced by the imperialist authorities and the Kuomintang reactionaries, the Party's publishing institutions often had to engage in distribution work by changing the names of bookstores and borrowing various "costumes" . Taking the People's Publishing House as an example, the words "Guangzhou People's Publishing House" are printed on the books and periodicals it publishes, and the address is printed as "No. 26 Changxing Road, Guangzhou".
The Original Initial Intention: A Compilation of the Early Publications of the Party includes a total of 15 kinds of early Publications of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai based on the original version.
Judging from the time and publishing institutions of the 15 bibliographies, from 1920 to 1930, it spanned the three periods of the founding of the Party, the Great Revolution and the Agrarian Revolutionary War, including the New Youth Society, the People's Publishing House, the Shanghai Bookstore, the Huaxing Bookstore and other most important publishing and distribution institutions of the Party in Shanghai in various periods.
Judging from the composition of the 15 bibliographies, it includes the main categories of the Party's early book publications: namely, the original works of Marxist classics, the expositions and reference works that help study Marxism and observe the socialist revolution in Soviet Russia, and the summary and theoretical exploration of the experiences and theoretical explorations of the Communist Party of China devoted to the dissemination of Marxism and its application to the practice of the Chinese revolution.
Hu Guoqiang, chairman of the Shanghai Publishing Association, believes that "The Original Initial Intention - A Compilation of the Early Publications of the Party" provides readers with first-hand documents with great research value for readers to understand the history of the spread of Marxism in China and the history of the development of the ideological theory of the Communist Party of China. The ideas and assertions contained in these documents are the ideological memories of our Party in its infancy. In this sense, this set of compilations is not only a cultural relic that witnesses the growth of the party's century-old history, but also an ideological reference for us to write the second century of history. ”
"The cultural significance of this set of books is like a 'manuscript' of the Chinese Communist Party's ideological process." Huang Lizhi, a professor at the Party School of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, believes that this set of books is a major event in China's publishing circles, as well as in the reading and intellectual circles. It shows readers in a pristine form the gatherings of Chinese intellectual circles in the 20th century, how the literature of Marxism and communism penetrated into the spiritual world of Chinese, and how the socialist movement took root in China, from which we can see how the Communist Party of China developed from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong, from naïve to mature.
Quan Yan Shaoyuan, an expert in party history research, believes that the value of this set of books is reflected in four aspects: First, from the group of editors, authors, and translators of this set of books, they can fully consider the important position of the party's publishing cause in the process of the party's founding and struggle; second, through specific contents and introductions, they can examine the long-standing tradition and development process of theme publishing in the history of the Communist Party of China's publishing; third, the original ecological appearance of the publications at that time was preserved through photocopied publishing, and the narrative of red publishing in the environment of white terror can be examined Finally, an in-depth analysis of the links between each publication and its before and after editions shows the influence of the Party's publishing institutions, publications and publishers on China's modern publishing industry.
"The Original Initial Intention - A Compilation of the Early Publications of the Party" is another achievement of the Shanghai publishing industry to promote the "excavation and propaganda project of the birthplace of the party" and theoretical research and communication brand building. In order to compile the original version of the original "Initial Intention - A Compilation of the Early Publications of the Party", the Museum of Modern and Contemporary China Press and Publications set up a special working group to investigate, collect, and photocopy the publications of the early publishing institutions of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. Sun Yu, the publisher and director of the Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, introduced that the book layout and cover of "The Original Initial Intention - A Compilation of the Party's Early Publication Documents" are printed as they are, so as to restore the original appearance of the historical documents to the greatest extent. In the future, Shanghai's theoretical circles and publishing circles will continue to gather expert resources, innovate forms of communication, fully tap and utilize Shanghai's rich red resources, polish fine products and hot products, and provide more excellent textbooks for repairing compulsory courses in party history.