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Mao's Little red book: a global history

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014Description: xvi, 287 pISBN:
  • 9781107461680
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05 M2
Summary: Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism. Published for the first time in 1964, it rapidly became the must-have accessory for Red Guards and revolutionaries from Berkeley to Bamako. Yet, despite its worldwide circulation and enduring presence there has, until now, been no serious scholarly effort to understand this seminal text as a global historical phenomenon. Mao's Little Red Book brings together a range of innovative scholars from around the world to explore the fascinating variety of uses and forms that Mao's Quotations has taken, from rhetoric, art and song, to talisman, badge, and weapon. The authors of this pioneering volume use Mao's Quotations as a medium through which to re-examine the history of the twentieth-century world, challenging established ideas about the book to reveal its remarkable global impact.First book to examine Quotations from Chairman Mao as a global historical phenomenon: it places this key text of 1960s global radicalism into a thorough historical perspective Range of contributors capture the diversity of views that made the Little Red Book one of the most controversial books of the century, and explore the various mediums it has taken, from political manifesto, art and song, to badge and weapon A timely publication: 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao.(http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/maos-little-red-book-global-history)
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Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism. Published for the first time in 1964, it rapidly became the must-have accessory for Red Guards and revolutionaries from Berkeley to Bamako. Yet, despite its worldwide circulation and enduring presence there has, until now, been no serious scholarly effort to understand this seminal text as a global historical phenomenon. Mao's Little Red Book brings together a range of innovative scholars from around the world to explore the fascinating variety of uses and forms that Mao's Quotations has taken, from rhetoric, art and song, to talisman, badge, and weapon. The authors of this pioneering volume use Mao's Quotations as a medium through which to re-examine the history of the twentieth-century world, challenging established ideas about the book to reveal its remarkable global impact.First book to examine Quotations from Chairman Mao as a global historical phenomenon: it places this key text of 1960s global radicalism into a thorough historical perspective
Range of contributors capture the diversity of views that made the Little Red Book one of the most controversial books of the century, and explore the various mediums it has taken, from political manifesto, art and song, to badge and weapon A timely publication: 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao.(http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/maos-little-red-book-global-history)

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