Saturday, September 28, 2013

Mao's Red Book Makes A Return To China

Mao's Little Red Book To Get Revamp -- The Guardian

New version of Quotations from Chairman Mao, the world's second most published book, to hit Chinese shelves in November

It will not be especially little, and the cover will be only partly red. But a new version of the world's second most published book is due to appear on Chinese shelves, decades after it fell from favour with the end of Maoism.

The re-emergence of Quotations from Chairman Mao – better known as the Little Red Book – comes amid an official revival of the era's rhetoric. China's leader, Xi Jinping, has embraced Maoist terminology and concepts, launching a "mass line rectification campaign" and this week even presiding over a televised self-criticism session.

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Update: Mao's 'Little Red Book' to Be Reprinted -- Breitbart

WNU Editor: If you want to waste an hour of your life .... Mao's Little Red Book can be read here. As to what are Chinese students being taught today .... their focus is now on this book.

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