Times Past

SACU has been producing newsletter and magazines for over 35 years.

This section reproduces some of the articles from the early years of SACU in the late sixties and early seventies. They have been chosen to reflect the impact of change during turbulent times in China.

Click on the title of the article to read the extract.

• Celebrations in London, October 1967
• A boy's experience of the Cultural Revolution in the countryside
• Holding back the desert in Northern China
• A UK student relates her experience of working in a Shanghai factory in 1965
• A new Edgar Snow film about China is released
• Chairman Mao sculptures
• Life in a rural Commune in 1968
• A new book by Dr Joseph Needham in 1969
• Edgar Snow talks to Zhou Enlai in 1971