Chairman Mao 毛主席

A postage stamp from the Cultural Revolution Period. Chairman Mao surrounded by representatives from cultures around the world. They wait to have him autograph the little red book. Click like.

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.…

This is a ceramic souvenir stand with Mao Zedong’s image imprinted on the front with his childhood home below his bust. The characters below his home say, “The Sun Rises Over Shaoshan. Mao was often referred to as the Red Sun of China. There is…

It is a postage stamp with an image of Mao Zedong waving as he looks out over the Tiananmen Plaza from atop the Tiananmen Gate. This is one stamp from a set of two. You can view the other here. Click to like.

It is a postage stamp with an image of Mao Zedong with Lin Biao looking out toward the Tiananmen Plaza from atop the Tiananmen Gate. This is one stamp from a set of two. You can view the other here. Click to like.

A Papercut of Mao Zedong from the Cultural Revolution period.

It it the Chinese railway insignia. You can also see it in this painting on the man’s teacup.

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…

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.

Print # 1 in the Appreciation of Modern Art Volume 3