CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget

Le lexique comporte des expressions telles que : « to take the initiative instead of being passive », « to
turn the whole country into a big red school of Mao Tse-Tung’s thought », « If those in power are not
proletarian, then they must be bourgeois », « never stop till complete victory », « to be demons in
human shape », « Long live Chairman Mao!”, “Mao Tse-Tung’s thought propaganda teams”, “to post
big-character posters”, …
BON EXEMPLAIRE DE CE RARE MANUEL DE LA RÉVOLUTION CULTURELLE, TÉMOIN DE LA POLITIQUE MENÉE
EN CHINE PAR MAO ZEDONG, CONSERVÉ DANS SA JAQUETTE D’ORIGINE EN VINYLE ROUGE.
Rare and precious handbook of the Cultural Revolution conducted by Mao Zedong in 1966.
After the first 10 pages presenting the basic precepts of the Cultural Revolution there is a reproduction of
the poster produced by Mao on the 5 th of august 1966 and entitled “Bombard the head-quarters”.
Then the volume follows with the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
concerning the great proletarian Cultural Revolution. Adopted on August 8, 1966”. This decision in 16 points
gives a summary of the main guidelines to follow to succeed in the Cultural Revolution.
Two other texts are bound at the end of the volume: Chairman Mao’s Poems, and a bilingual dictionary of
the Cultural Revolution in English and Chinese. This lexicon contains some expressions such as: « to take
the initiative instead of being passive », « to turn the whole country into a big red school of Mao Tse-Tung’s
thought », « If those in power are not proletarian, then they must be bourgeois », « never stop till complete
victory », « to be demons in human shape », « Long live Chairman Mao!”, “Mao Tse-Tung’s thought
propaganda teams”, “to post big-character posters”, …
A good copy of this rare manual of the Cultural Revolution, an interesting evidence of the policy followed
by Mao Zedong in China, preserved in its original red vinyl cover.
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