The r.p.m. is 33⅓.
Record number: 中国唱片 M-101.
Title: 歌唱祖国 [Songs of the Ancestral Land]. Includes the following songs (all choral):
Side 1:
1. 东方红 [The East is Red]
2. 歌唱祖国 [Song of the Ancestral Land]
3. 和平友谊之歌 [The Song of Peace and Friendship]
Side 2:
1. 送郎当红军 [Seeing off a Lad to Join the Red Army]
2. 最可爱的人回来了 [Most Beloved has Returned]
3. 如今的歌儿用箩装 [Today’s Songs Packed in Wicker Baskets]
4. 牛蛙山歌 [Song of Niuwa Mountain]
5. 一道道水来一道道山 [Water comes to the Mountains].
Performers: Various.
Manufacturer: 中国唱片出版社; 中国唱片厂印制. [China Record Publisher; China Record Factory].
Sleeve: The sleeve has a colour reproduction of a Chinese painting of birds and flowers. The verso gives full details of the contents. No date is given, but the sleeve mixes traditional and simplified characters, is certainly not Cultural Revolution period, and an online source gives a date of 1960.
It was presumably bought by Joseph Needham in China in 1964, though a sleeve from the Tsang Fook Piano Co., 19 Queen’s Road, Hong Kong was found stored with it, and into which it fits perfectly, so he may have bought it in Hong Kong.