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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, and other Chinese officials stand in uniform, holding up Little Red Books during a 1967 Red Guard rally in China. A massive crowd of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, enthusiastically wave copies of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, with government buildings and red balloons in the background. Children reading The Little Red Book, 1976 Cultural Revolution-era propaganda poster Andy Warhol's portraits of Mao Zedong RedNote Lin Biao
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung Also called The Little Red Book, this pocket-sized collection of Mao's quotations became central to the Cultural Revolution in China (1966–76).

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

edition by Lin Biao
Also known as: “The Little Red Book”
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Ethan Teekah is an Associate Editor at Encyclopædia Britannica, where he leads coverage of Asia.
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, pocket-sized book of selected quotations from Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), first published by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in 1964. It was produced in the wake of the catastrophic failures of the Great Leap Forward (1958–60) at a moment when Mao feared losing influence in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Designed to reassert his ideological authority, the book became central to the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), during which...

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