A collection of select picture storybooks from 1973. This was a Beijing Middle School library book and still has the library card sleeve on the inside back page. Stories were selected from the National Picture Storybook Drawing Exhibition of China. Each story in the book…
The button on the left shows Mao’s silhouette against the map of China on a globe. On the back, it shows the date as 1968 and a semi-undecipherable slogan, ? ? 呼全国一片红 “The whole country is red.” During this time period, in 1968, there was…