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The Little Red Book

The Little Red Book. By : Jacus Pek Yap Kai Herng Jeon Hyun Seo Teoh Kai Xiang. What is Mao’s Little Red Book? The Book Of Quotations of Chairman Mao ZeDong is widely known as The Little Red Book This is the most widely printed book in the 20 th Century.

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The Little Red Book

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  1. The Little Red Book By : Jacus Pek Yap Kai Herng Jeon Hyun Seo Teoh Kai Xiang

  2. What is Mao’s Little Red Book? The Book Of Quotations of Chairman Mao ZeDong is widely known as The Little Red Book This is the most widely printed book in the 20th Century. It was edited by Lin Bao, the Minister of Defence at that time. Do You Know What This Is?? It’s Mao’s Little Red Book

  3. What is Mao’s Little Red Book? • The Little Red Book contains 427 quotes, divided into 33 chapters, each containing Mao’s ideology on a certain topic. • Mao’s ideology is known as “Maoism” or officially as “Mao ZeDong Thought”. • The Little Red Book was first published by the Chinese government in 1966.

  4. The Little Red Book During The Chinese Cultural Revolution • During the 1960s, the book was the single most visible icon in mainland China, even more visible than the image of the Chairman himself. • The Little Red Book was compiled to help the Chinese citizens learn Mao ZeDong’s thoughts and quotes more effectively.

  5. The Little Red Book During The Chinese Cultural Revolution • It was an unofficial requirement for every Chinese citizen to read The Little Red Book and carry it around. • During that Chinese Cultural Revolution, not carrying, reading or quoting the book would have been seen as a sign of difference from Mao’s thoughts, which could lead to punishment or even death.

  6. The Little Red Book During The Chinese Cultural Revolution • The Little Red Book was popularly used by the Little Red Guards to weed out intellectuals. • Studying the book was not only required in schools but in the workplace as well.All units organized group sessions for the entire workforce to study the book during working hours.

  7. The Little Red Book During The Chinese Cultural Revolution • Although the Little Red Book was widely used, some people claim that the content of it was not significant at all. • Mao's quotes were usually unclear, and after the book became all powerful, people could easily get out of trouble simply by quoting from the book to explain their false behaviour.

  8. The Little Red Book During The Chinese Cultural Revolution Quotes from Mao were either bold-faced or highlighted in red, and almost all writing, including scientific essays, had to quote Mao through The Little Red Book. In posters or pictures created by propaganda artists, nearly every painted character, except Mao himself, was always seen with a copy of the book in his or her hand.

  9. The Little Red Book During The Chinese Cultural Revolution • After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the rise of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the importance of the book waned considerably, and the glorification of Mao's quotations was considered to be left deviationism and a cult of personality. The original books then became a collector's item and some editions are highly sought after.

  10. Mao’s Last Dancer The Little Red Book is very important in Li Cunxin’s life. It was one of his school requirements and at that time, he and his classmates were taught that the Little Red Book will guide them through their lives and without it they would be lost souls.

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