China, Cultural Revolution, "The Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung" (毛泽东选集) With Original Slipcase

• Title: 毛泽东选集 - The Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung (Chinese Language Edition)
• Date: 1968
• Author: Mao Zedong, first edition published in Beijing, 1964. This edition was printed in 1968.
• Size: 5.1 x 3.7 inches
• Condition: Slipcase in great condition with some staining, outer plastic covers are slightly warped. Some staining on pages.
• Notes: Better known in the West for the famous “Little Red Book,” the writings of Mao Zedong circulated widely through a range of similarly small, red, printed propaganda books during the mid-twentieth century. Collections like Quotations from Chairman Mao and the multi-volume Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung compiled excerpts from speeches, essays, and political directives, organizing them into passages short enough to studied, memorized, and repeated. These publications distilled ideology into portable form, covering themes that ranged from revolution and communism, to discipline and culture.
  
  During the 1960s, particularly at the height of the Cultural Revolution, these books became so iconic that they were more recognizable than Mao’s own portrait. In propaganda posters across China, nearly every figure proudly displays their own book. Workers, soldiers, and students carried them in their pockets, studied them in groups, and even swore oaths upon them.
  
  Across the world, activists and revolutionaries treated them like pocket-sized manuals for upheaval, drawing inspiration from their easily memorized lines. For a brief moment in the late 1960s, these volumes functioned as a shared language of dissent, circulating beyond the boarders that created them. Today, they survive as a nostalgic relic of another era—little red books that once crossed continents, shaped movements, and convinced millions that they were remaking the world.

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