Philosophy Is No Mystery: Peasants Put Study To Work, was published by Foreign Languages Press in 1972. It details peasants' study and application of philosophy to the fields of class struggle, production, and scientific experiment. The book shows not only how philosophy can be used as a tool by the working masses to solve the problems facing them in socialist construction and everyday life, but indeed, how philosophy is absolutely necessary for understanding the contradictions at the heart of those problems and developing strategies and tactics for resolving those contradictions.
Note on Chinese pronunciation: Chinese words and names in this text are rendered in the Wade–Giles system of romanization. This system is today considered quite outdated, and its odd and seemingly arbitrary rendering of Chinese has led to many mispronunciations from foreign speakers. I have done my best to find the readings for these words in pinyin, the far superior system of Chinese romanization, and they will be pronounced that way, if not with the correct tones. To give some examples, you will hear: Mao Zedong, not Mao Tsetung; Beijing, not Peking; Hebei, not Hopei; Xinjiang, not Sinkiang; Zhang Chunqiao, not Chang Chun-chiao. I also take the liberty of replacing Canton with the Chinese Guangzhou. However, I do not pronounce Chiang Kai-shek as Jiang Jieshi, figuring that the latter would be unfamiliar to most listeners and would cause confusion.
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