Citações do presidente mao tsé-tung

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; pinyin: Máo zhǔxí yǔlù) has been published by the People's Republic of China since April '64. It is a collection of quotations excerpted from speeches & publications. The alternative "The Little Red Book" was coined by the West for a pocket-sized edition printed to facilitate easy carrying. The closest equivalent in Chinese is 红宝书 (hóng bǎoshū), lit. "The Red Treasured Book", a term popular during the Cultural Revolution. "Little Red Book" in Chinese is 小红书 (xiăo hóngshū).
The copies in print exceed 900 million. The book's phenomenal popularity is due to it being an unofficial requirement for every Chinese citizen to own, read & carry it during the Cultural Revolution. At the height of the period, for people out of party favor, the punishment for failing to produce the book upon being asked would range from being beaten on the spot by Red Guards to being jailed.
During the Cultural Revolution, studying the book was required in schools & often workplaces as well. All units, in the industrial, commercial, agricultural, civil service & military sectors, organized group sessions for all to study the book during working hours. Quotes from Mao were either bold-faced or highlighted in red.
To defend against claims it was counter-productive, it was argued that understanding Mao brought enlightenment to work units, resulting in production improvements offsetting lost time.
In the '60s, the book was the single most visible icon in mainland China, In posters & pictures created by propaganda artists, nearly every painted character, except Mao himself, either smiling or looking determined, was seen with the book in hand.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution in '76 & the rise of Deng Xiaoping in '78, the importance of the book waned. Mao glorification was considered to be left deviationist personality cultism.
Quotations from Chairman Mao comprises 427 quotations in 33 thematic chapters. The quotations range in length from a sentence to a few short paragraphs, borrowing from a group of about two dozen documents in the four volumes of his Selected Works. In its latter half, a strong empiricist tendency is evidenced. Usually the quotations are arranged logically, to deal with one to three themes in the development of a chapter.