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Blog posts by Justin G. Schiller

Justin G. Schiller has been in the trade for over 50 years, issuing his first catalogue as a teenager. He is a premier specialist in Children's Literature, Original Illustration Art, and the Cultural Revolution.

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1964: The Little Red Book

By Justin G. Schiller

The 1960s was a decade of both discovery and protest, riots and revolutions, from anti-war marches, assassinations of world leaders, man's first landing on the moon, and the birth of a new brand of music led by The Beatles. Change was in the air and nowhere was it more obvious than in modern China with the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in August 1966. But more than two years earlier, before Chairman Mao ordered his Red Guards to restructure Society and re-educate intellectuals, there was the "Little Red Book" – a series of useful quotations gathered from Mao's earlier lectures and writings that would help guide his countrymen and women to deal with problems covering all aspects of daily life. The size of the book was small enough to fit inside a shirt pocket so it could be flush against the heart. Its phenomenal popularity may be ... [more 1964: The Little Red Book]