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Original Vintage Chinese Propaganda Poster Featuring Mao's Little Red Book

$1,120
$1,40020% Off
£855.11
£1,068.8920% Off
€988.08
€1,235.1020% Off
CA$1,572.27
CA$1,965.3320% Off
A$1,752.46
A$2,190.5720% Off
CHF 919.45
CHF 1,149.3220% Off
MX$21,400.35
MX$26,750.4420% Off
NOK 11,642.28
NOK 14,552.8620% Off
SEK 11,003.73
SEK 13,754.6620% Off
DKK 7,374.45
DKK 9,218.0720% Off

About the Item

Original vintage Chinese propaganda poster Featuring Mao's Little Red Book This poster is in great condition and is backed onto high quality canvas linen, a technique which adds value to the poster "Originally produced in 1964 by the People's Liberation Army - an early version was titled 200 Quotations from Chairman Mao - it soon became a key feature of the leader's personality cult. The Ministry of Culture aimed to distribute a copy to every Chinese citizen and hundreds of new printing houses were built in order to achieve this. Mao himself reportedly liked its resemblance to books of quotations by philosophers such as Confucius... During the Cultural Revolution, in which millions were persecuted or killed, owning it "became a way of surviving", says Daniel Leese, professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Freiburg. Paramilitary "Red Guards" mobilised by Mao to purify the Communist Party would check whether those suspected of bourgeois tendencies were carrying it or whether they could quote from it." -BBC Dimensions: 50 x 75 cm Year: circa 1960.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 29.53 in (75 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
  • Style:
    Other (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    circa 1960
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Melbourne, AU
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3376122899692

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