Little Red Book

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The Little Red Book is a widely distributed collection of political quotations by Chinese leader Mao Zedong that became a central propaganda and ideological text during the Cultural Revolution.

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Mao’s Little Red Book 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
collection of quotations
political text
propaganda work
alternativeName Little Red Book
surface form: Mao's Little Red Book

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
surface form: Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
associatedWith Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong
People's Liberation Army
Red Guards
author Mao Zedong
binding pocket-sized paperback
circulation hundreds of millions of copies
color red
compiler Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
countryOfOrigin China
distributionMethod mass distribution by the state
firstEditionYear 1964
format pocket-sized handbook
genre communist literature
political philosophy
propaganda literature
hasPart chapter on class struggle
chapter on culture and art
chapter on the Communist Party
chapter on war and peace
historicalPeriod Cultural Revolution
ideology Maoism
Marxism–Leninism
influenced Maoist movements worldwide
language Arabic
Chinese
English
French
German
Japanese
Russian
Spanish
mainSubject Chinese Communist Party ideology
class struggle
mass line
party discipline
people's war
revolution
self-criticism
notableFeature contains short quotations
often carried publicly as a sign of loyalty to Mao
organized by thematic chapters
originalLanguage Chinese
politicalAlignment communist
far-left
publicationYear 1964
publisher People’s Liberation Army Publishing House
surface form: People's Liberation Army Publishing House

People's Publishing House
requiredReadingFor Chinese citizens during the Cultural Revolution
Chinese students during the Cultural Revolution
members of the People's Liberation Army
symbolOf Cultural Revolution
Maoist ideology
targetAudience Chinese masses
soldiers
youth
timePeriodOfProminence 1960s
1970s
title Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
usedAs ideological education material
political indoctrination text
propaganda tool

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this entity surface form: Mao’s Little Red Book
Little Red Book alternativeName Little Red Book
this entity surface form: Mao's Little Red Book
Red Guards usedSymbol Little Red Book