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Published by Verso Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 1844675874ISBN 13: 9781844675876
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Stuttgart : Deutsche Verl.-Anst., 1966
Seller: Schürmann und Kiewning GbR, Naumburg, Germany
Book
kart. Condition: Gut. [1. - 10. Tsd.]. 114 Seiten 114 S. ; gr. 8° Einbanddecke mit Randläsur Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 270.
Published by Frankfurt a.M. : S. Fischer, 1971
ISBN 10: 3103482019ISBN 13: 9783103482010
Seller: books4less (Versandantiquariat Petra Gros GmbH & Co. KG), Welling, Germany
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gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 414 S. ; Der Erhaltungszustand des hier angebotenen Werks ist trotz seiner Bibliotheksnutzung sehr sauber. Es befindet sich neben dem Rückenschild lediglich ein Bibliotheksstempel im Buch; ordnungsgemäß entwidmet. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 515.
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Published by People'S Publishing House
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 1950. Paperback. 8vo.31pp.Nice copy in original printed wrappers. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by People'S Publishing House, 1950
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Very Good. 1950. Paperback. 8vo.31pp.Nice copy in original printed wrappers. . . . .
Published by Verso 2019-06-25, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1788734688ISBN 13: 9781788734684
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
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Published by Foreign Languages Press - Peking, 1954
Seller: Libreria Tara, Roma, RM, Italy
Politica ed Economia Anarchia, Socialismo e Comunismo Historical and Political studies Politics and Economics Anarchy, Socialism and Communism OTTIME CONDIZIONI.
Published by Stuttgart : Dt. Bücherbund, 1973
Seller: Antiquariat Buchhandel Daniel Viertel, Diez, Germany
Book
8°, Leinen, Condition: Gut. Die Bücher der Neunzehn ; Bd. 194. 414 S. ; gebraucht, gut erhaltenes Exemplar, 9796 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 522.
Published by Foreign LanguageS Press, Peking, 1970
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
323, [5] pp. Red ribbon page marker. 4 b/w photographic images of Mao at front. 16mo. 5-1/8" x 3-5/8" Modest wear & soiling, splay to covers, Very Good. Red vinyl covers, with gold stamping to front panel.
Published by Peking: Foreign Languages Press., 1970
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 16mo (13 x 9cm). 324pp. Publisher's original red limp vinyl covers with titles in gilt to the upper cover. Illustrated with four black and white photographs of Chairman Mao. Red ribbon page-marker. A very good copy, the binding firm with significant curling to the covers (as is commonly found) and some marking to the rear cover. The contents with a minor crease to the head of one page are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A relatively uncommon little book reproducing seventeen notable documents relating to the progress of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, including a number of letters and speeches by Lin Biao.
Published by Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, [c.1968], 1968
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
A compelling example of Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda in French, printed in comparatively small numbers. The quote captures the Cultural Revolution's emphasis on the innate energy and power of the masses, an ethos that chimed with the mass protests happening contemporaneously across France. This quote, featured in chapter eight of the "Little Red Book" under the theme of "People's War", originally comes from a concluding speech given by Mao to the Second National Congress of Workers' and Peasants' Representatives held in Jiangxi province in January 1934. At the time, the Chinese Communist Party could only boast control of a few scattered and predominantly rural pockets of China, and it relied on mass mobilization in its base areas, combined with underground insurgencies in the cities, to grow its revolutionary movement. Fast forward three decades, and Mao had once again unleashed the power of the masses through the framework of the Cultural Revolution in order to overcome what he perceived as a gradual stagnation of the revolution in the hands of cautious technocrats. Blind to many of the horrors of the Maoist mass movement, French left wing activists and intellectuals were a prime audience for Maoist talk of the people and their revolutionary potential. The Chinese Communist Party had always been closely linked to France - after all, several members of its first generation leadership cut their Marxist teeth in France in the early 20th century. Furthermore, the mass politics of the Cultural Revolution, encapsulated in the words on the present poster, also resonated with anti-de Gaulle protests and fed into the events of May 1968. As a result, soon after the Cultural Revolution broke out, the French Left became much taken with developments in China and, in Paris, "signs of Maoism's popularity abounded" (Wolin, p. 114). Clothing boutiques sold copious Mao suits - "les cols Maos" - and booksellers experienced runs on copies of the "Little Red Book" translated into French. In elite intellectual circles, Louis Althusser's students at the Ecole normale supérieure "were planning trips to China, copiously citing the Little Red Book, and praising the virtues of a "war of position" against the bourgeois enemy" (ibid., p. 118). In such a climate, posters such as this example were always going to sell well. By distributing posters such as the present item, the Foreign Languages Press also deepened the ideological tussle between Maoist mass politics and the more bureaucratised socialism of the Soviet Union. Beginning in the late 1950s, private and then public cracks appeared in the socialist world, with Mao's China becoming increasing opposed to the policy direction of the Soviet Union. At a time when China was carrying out a series of audacious voluntarist socio-economic transformations, Beijing saw Moscow as having betrayed key tenets of Marxism-Leninism in favour of a highly regimented, stodgy and top-heavy "revisionist" form of socialist governance. Additional geopolitical tensions between Moscow and Beijing, combined with China's increasing military strength, eventually overflowed into public exchanges of vitriolic criticism and diplomatic ruptures, with Soviet diplomats expelled from China after the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. In this climate, Chinese propaganda focused as much on attacking the Soviet Union as it did on lambasting the United States. Having already disseminated the "Little Red Book" widely, more ephemeral items such as posters could take their place at French rallies, in schools, and on the walls of other organisations. Posters such as this example therefore aimed to win over converts to China's ideological side of the communist world and simultaneously weaken what Mao called Moscow's "revisionist" and "imperialist" distortion of Marxism-Leninism. Richard Wolin, The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s, Princeton University Press, 2010. Poster (380 x 530 mm), with a three-quarter portrait of Mao and a quotation printed in red on a yellow panel with a gold border. Small faint stain to bottom left corner, margins a little toned, with some mild creasing and a few nicks, printed material unaffected, light vertical crease at the centre, couple of scuff marks, upper-left quadrant of image slightly faded, overall in very good condition.
Published by [China: c.1968], 1968
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Two manifestations of the Cultural Revolution's extreme Mao cult, designed to politicize homes or workplaces. Each sign includes one of the Chairman's famous quotations, here concerning the leading role of the Chinese Communist Party and his theory of the "mass line". The red profile on both examples follows the design widely used for badges. The quotations are signed with a replica of Mao's distinctive calligraphic signature. 2 items (90 x 200 mm and reverse), rectos coated in cream with red lettering and red plastic mould of Mao's head in profile, metal hangings on verso. Housed in grey archival box. A little soiling, more so to versos: excellent examples.
Published by Beijing: Beijing huagong er chang, 1968, 1968
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Prepossessing piece of political portraiture, now highly collectible, produced at the Mao cult's apotheosis to celebrate his 15 August 1968 audience with exemplary revolutionaries in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Mao busts were ubiquitous in workplaces, schools, and homes during the Cultural Revolution; nearly all were mass-produced in porcelain, with other materials mainly employed for limited issue commemorative productions. By 1968, the Cultural Revolution had produced a hyper-politicized society framed around widespread grassroots activism and the imparting of significance to Mao's every word and deed. Audiences with the chairman, where he addressed student and worker representatives from the capital, as well as those who had come from other parts of China, became cherished moments and symbolized, for attendees, Mao's valuable affirmation of their revolutionary credentials, especially within the context of the movement's tumultuous factional rivalries. Organizations therefore often produced busts, badges, and other items celebrating such events. The present example concerns one such Cultural Revolution convocation, reported with much fanfare in the state newspaper, The People's Daily, on 16 August 1968. According to the gushing article, "smiling broadly, glowing with health, and radiating vigour, Mao, together with vice chairman Lin Biao, his closest comrade in arms, arrived at the hall amidst extremely warm and rapturous applause, greeting the capital's representatives of the proletariat as well as other political soldiers. Chairman Mao spent considerable time warmly and energetically waving and applauding those assembled, and shook hands with leading representatives on the ceremonial platform". With easy access to rubber, workers from Beijing huagong er chang (Beijing Number Two Chemical Plant) cast an unknown number of copies of this souvenir design, using the inscription to also reference Mao's famous gift of mangoes to some Beijing propaganda cadres earlier the same month. Overall, this is an alluring example of the Mao cult's penetration into the fabric of everyday life during the late 1960s and early 1970s. A burgeoning collector's market has left pieces from the Cultural Revolution increasingly hard to find, especially in this condition. 220 x 200 x 100 mm, rear of base lettered in relief in Chinese, "Commemorating Chairman Mao's audience with worker representatives from our factory and his gift of mangoes, Beijing Number Two Chemical Plant Revolutionary Committee, 1968.8.15". A fine example with touch of soiling.