A bilingual English-Chinese copy of Mao’s quotes, AKA “Little Red Book,” in mint condition.
This book is 589 pages long with Chinese on the left side and English on the right throughout the whole book.
It was printed at the 东方红出版社 The Eastern Red Publishers in Beijing.
“Workers of All Countries, Unite!” Inside-page quote.
Norman Bethune was a Canadian surgeon who volunteered to help the People’s Liberation Army in the 1930s. Mao held him up as a model for emulation. See an animated storybook of Norman Bethune here and another collection of storybook pages here.
This piece is displayed in celebration of Women’s History Month. All women, as a group, in all cultures, under all governments deserve equal celebration. There is a little red book of Mao’s quotes like this one. She is wearing a Mao button like this one.…
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…