Mao's Little Red Book
Douban
A Global History
Alexander C. Cook ed.
overview
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this edited volume is the first to examine the Little Red Book as a global historical phenomenon, challenging established ideas about the book and re-examining the history of the twentieth-century world.
contents
List of illustrations page vii
List of contributors viii
Preface xiii
1 Introduction: The spiritual atom bomb and its global fallout 1
Alexander C. Cook
2 A single spark: Origins and spread of the Little Red Book in China 23
daniel leese
3 Quotation songs: Portable media and the Maoist pop song 43
Andrew F. Jones
4 Mao quotations in factional battles and their afterlives: Episodes from Chongqing 61
Guobin Yang
5 Translation and internationalism 76
Lanjun Xu
6 Maoism in Tanzania: material connections and shared imaginaries 96
Priya Lal
7 Empty symbol: the Little Red Book in India 117
Sreemati Chakrabarti
8 The influence of Maoism in Peru 130
David Scott Palmer
9 The book that bombed: Mao’s Little Red Thing in the Soviet Union 147
Elizabeth McGuire
10 Mao and the Albanians 165
Elidor Mëhilli
11 Partisan legacies and anti-imperialist ambitions: The Little Red Book in Italy and Yugoslavia 185
Dominique Kirchner Reill
12 Badge books and brand books: The Mao Bible in East and West Germany 206
Quinn Slobodian
13 Principally contradiction: The flourishing of French Maoism 225
Julian Bourg
14 By the book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the making of Afro-Asian radicalism, 1966–1975 245
Bill V. Mullen
15 Conclusion: In the beginning is the word: Popular democracy and Mao’s Little Red Book 266
Ban Wang
Index 278