"The Green Book (Muammar Gaddafi) The Green Book ( """") is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libya's dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It was ""intended to be read for all people."" It is said to have been inspired in part by ""The Little Red Book"" (""Quotations from Chairman Mao""). Both were widely distributed both inside and outside their country of origin, and ""written in a simple, understandable style with many memorable slogans."" An English translation was issued by the Libyan People's Committee, and a bilingual English/Arabic edition was issued in London"
"Red Book"" published over 350 million copies during the era. For the first time since the Puyi Abdication had people come to hail Mao as to ""Long Live for Ten Thousand Years"", which ironically is an old, feudal tradition reserved for Emperors. Lin Biao, having gained Mao's trust, had his name codified into the Constitution of both the State and Party as Mao's designated successor. The 9th Party Congress met in Beijing during April 1969. The effects of the Cultural Revolution were obvious, as most of the delegates who had attended the 8th Congress in 1956 were gone. Green army"
"China's UN delegation. However, his spoken English was limited to a few single words, phrases, and some short sentences. He first chose to systematically learn English in the 1950s, which was very unusual as the main foreign language first taught in Chinese schools at that time was Russian. Mao was a prolific writer of political and philosophical literature. He is the attributed author of ""Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung"", known in the West as the ""Little Red Book"" and in Cultural Revolution China as the ""Red Treasure Book"" (): first published in January 1964, this is a collection of short"
"Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China is a book written by Robert Payne and published by Henry Schuman, New York in 1950, shortly after Mao Zedong (here his name is transliterated as ""Mao Tse-tung"") came to power. Fifteen years before the Cultural Revolution, Payne anticipated Mao's wider interests: Though lacking some of the documents and details that were available in later years, the book discusses the party's history, including its foundation, in detail. In chapter three, Payne explains how ""Pravda"" in 1920 had wrongly reported the formation of a Communist Party of China. This"
"Mao proposed the Socialist Education Movement (SEM) in an attempt to educate the peasants to resist the ""temptations"" of feudalism and the sprouts of capitalism that he saw re-emerging in the countryside from Liu's economic reforms. Large quantities of politicised art were produced and circulated — with Mao at the centre. Numerous posters, badges and musical compositions referenced Mao in the phrase ""Chairman Mao is the red sun in our hearts"" () and a ""Savior of the people"" (). In October 1966, Mao's ""Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung"", known as the ""Little Red Book"", was published. Party members were encouraged"
"was actually a conference consisting of a mixed bag of anarchists and non-Leninist socialists which “ended in a fiasco”. A revised and updated edition was published in 1961 as ""Portrait of a Revolutionary: Mao Tse-tung"". The original edition has been republished several times in recent years: as a paperback in 2007, as a hardback in 2008 and on Kindle in 2011. Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China is a book written by Robert Payne and published by Henry Schuman, New York in 1950, shortly after Mao Zedong (here his name is transliterated as ""Mao"
"Poetry of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the first Chairman of the Communist Party of China and leader of the People's Republic of China for nearly 30 years, wrote poetry, starting in the 1920s, during the Red Army's epic retreat during the Long March of 1934-1936, and after coming to power in 1949. In spite of Mao's political radicalism he was artistically conservative, opting to use traditional Chinese forms. Mao's poems are in the classical Chinese verse style, rather than the newer Modern Chinese poetry style. Mao is probably not one of the best Chinese poets, but his poems are"
"Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung () is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution. The most popular versions were printed in small sizes that could be easily carried and were bound in bright red covers, becoming commonly known in the West as the Little Red Book. ""Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung"" was originally compiled by an office of the ""PLA Daily"" (""People's Liberation Army"
"red packets ( in Mandarin or ""lai see"" in Cantonese) are specifically used during Chinese New Year celebrations for giving monetary gifts. On the more negative side, obituaries are traditionally written in red ink, and to write someone's name in red signals either cutting them out of one's life, or that they have died. Red is also associated with either the feminine or the masculine (yin and yang respectively), depending on the source. The ""Little Red Book"", a collection of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), was published in 1966 and widely"
"Red Book. The role was played by Wyman Pendleton during its brief Broadway run in 1968. One of Yama's largest movie parts was playing the title role, an unnamed Chairman Mao opposite Gregory Peck in ""The Chairman"" (1969), also known as ""The Most Dangerous Man in the World"". The New York Times review stated, ""In the best scene of all, as the story moves into Chinese headquarters, Mr. Peck has an ideological Ping-Pong match, swatting it out verbally over a table with an incisive actor named Conrad Yama"". To prepare for this scene, Peck and Yama received table tennis coaching"
"of private property. Mao established the People's Republic of China in 1949. While promoting his policies, Mao also caused the deaths of many peasants, academics, any suspected spies, and any persons thought to sympathize with a capitalist ways of thinking. There were also rehabilitation camps put in place to rehabilitate those who did not adhere to Communist principles. In the novel, Gao's character talks about the actions of a group called the Red Guards and his actions while being a part of it. The Red Guards were a young adult group that would work to destroy any and all past"
"year. By May 1967, bookstores in 117 countries and territories around the world – including Great Britain, France, Spain, Japan, the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Nepal, Indonesia, Burma, Iran, Arab and African nations and others – were distributing Mao's ""Quotations"". Foreign presses operating in 20 countries contributed to the publication of 20 translations in 35 versions. The ""Little Red Book"" has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures. Some sources claim that over 6.5 billion printed volumes have been distributed in total, others contend that the distribution ran into the ""billions,"" and others cite ""over a billion"" official"
"generation, Mao's education began with Chinese classical literature. Mao told Edgar Snow in 1936 that he had started the study of the Confucian Analects and the Four Books at a village school when he was eight, but that the books he most enjoyed reading were ""Water Margin"", ""Journey to the West"", the ""Romance of the Three Kingdoms"" and ""Dream of the Red Chamber"". Mao published poems in classical forms starting in his youth and his abilities as a poet contributed to his image in China after he came to power in 1949. His style was influenced by the great Tang"
"been both praised as prescient and blamed for the rise of Mao's communism. Some China historians have judged Snow's writing very positively. John K. Fairbank praised Snow's reporting for giving the West the first articulate account of the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership, which he called ""disastrously prophetic"". Writing thirty years after the first publication of ""Red Star Over China"", Fairbank stated that the book had ""stood the test of time... both as a historical record and as an indication of a trend."" Fairbank agrees that Snow was used by Mao, but defended Snow against the allegation that he"
"century"", and a dictator comparable to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, with a death toll surpassing both. In ""The Black Book of Communism"", Jean Louis Margolin writes that ""Mao Zedong was so powerful that he was often known as the Red Emperor ... the violence he erected into a whole system far exceeds any national tradition of violence that we might find in China."" Mao was frequently likened to China's First Emperor Qin Shi Huang, notorious for burying alive hundreds of scholars, and personally enjoyed the comparison. During a speech to party cadre in 1958, Mao said he had far"
"promoting Mao's cult of personality. Lin directed the compilation of some of Chairman Mao's writings into a handbook, the ""Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong"", which became known as ""the Little Red Book"". Lin Biao's military reforms and the success of the 1962 Sino-Indian War impressed Mao. A propaganda campaign called ""learn from the People's Liberation Army"" followed. In 1966, this campaign widened into the Cultural Revolution. Lin's support impressed Mao, who continued to promote Lin to higher political offices. After Mao's second-in-command, President Liu Shaoqi, was denounced as a ""capitalist roader"" in 1966, Lin Biao emerged as the most likely"
"redologist Yu Pingbo. On October 10, their critique of Yu's book ""Study of the Dream of the Red Chamber"" was published in the major national newspaper ""Guangming Daily"", which criticizes the book for lacking ""scientific analysis"" and for failing to notice the ""great anti-feudal trend"" represented in the classical novel. Li and Lan's critiques caught the attention of Mao Zedong, who seized the opportunity to launch an attack against Yu, and ultimately, the idealism espoused by the liberal scholar Hu Shih. Mao wrote a letter on 16 October 1954 praising the courage of Li and Lan, two ""nobodies"", for attacking"
"is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you ... The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you."" 350 million copies of the book had been printed by December 1967. It was the mechanism that led the Red Guards to commit to their objective as the future for China. These quotes directly from Mao led to other actions by the Red Guards in"
"book contained excerpts from all of Mao's major speeches from the 1930s to 1957, but not placed in any chronological order. Among the first targets of the Cultural Revolution were Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi. Deng was stripped of his party membership and labeled a revisionist and a capitalist roader. He wrote a self-criticism and was banished to the countryside, but in time he would rise again. Liu was far less lucky. Mao seems to have had an exceptional hatred for him, and he was denounced as ""China's Khrushchev"" and ""a traitor, renegade, and scab"". The hapless Liu was imprisoned"
"A battalion led by General Zhu De was ordered to take the city of Nanchang on August 1, 1927, in what became known as the Nanchang Uprising. They were initially successful, but were forced into retreat after five days, marching south to Shantou, and from there they were driven into the wilderness of Fujian. Mao was appointed commander-in-chief of the Red Army and led four regiments against Changsha in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, in the hope of sparking peasant uprisings across Hunan. On the eve of the attack, Mao composed a poem—the earliest of his to survive—titled ""Changsha"". His plan"
"Red culture movement Singing revolutionary songs, Reading classic books, Telling stories and Spreading mottos () or Singing, Reading, Telling and Spreading () is a political movement launched by Bo Xilai in Chongqing, People's Republic of China. It is one of Bo's two main political movements, along with Chongqing gang trials. Started in 2008, the movement caused impact around China. Reactions to the red culture movement were divided. Bo’s revival of Mao-era culture and accompanying social welfare programs were popular within certain segments of society, and made Bo popular with both Marxists and neo-leftists. One student quoted in ""The Washington Post"""
"Red Gang dragon heads and even church clergy. Mao claimed that he missed the July 1922 Second Congress of the Communist Party in Shanghai because he lost the address. Adopting Lenin's advice, the delegates agreed to an alliance with the ""bourgeois democrats"" of the KMT for the good of the ""national revolution"". Communist Party members joined the KMT, hoping to push its politics leftward. Mao enthusiastically agreed with this decision, arguing for an alliance across China's socio-economic classes. Mao was a vocal anti-imperialist and in his writings he lambasted the governments of Japan, UK and US, describing the latter as"
"lead the working class in the violent overthrow of the capitalism. Marxists-Leninists believed that after the revolution a dictatorship is needed in order to achieve communism. Marxism-Leninism rejects religion and believes that developing countries are the key to spreading communism. Maoism played an important role in Asian/American self-determination. The Little Red Book served as the foundation for their ideology as it provided a racialized analysis of Marxism. Asian Americans were inspired to further a joint Afro-Asian national self-determination agenda. In the Little Red Book, Chapter II directly supports Afro-Americans in their struggle against discrimination and US imperialism. Titled ""Classes and"
"December 22, 1968, Chairman Mao directed the ""People's Daily"" to publish a piece entitled ""We too have two hands, let us not laze about in the city"", which quoted Mao as saying ""The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."" In 1969 many youth were rusticated. Many students could not deal with the harsh life and died in the process of reeducation. The Red Guards and the wider Cultural Revolution are a sensitive and heavily censored chapter in China's history. Official government mentions of the era are rare and brief. Red"
"published a short account in ""China Weekly Review"", then a series of publications in Chinese. ""Red Star Over China"", published first in London in 1937, was given credit for introducing both Chinese and foreign readers not so much to the Communist Party, which was reasonably well known, but to Mao Zedong. Mao was not, as had been reported, dead, and Snow reported that Mao was a political reformer, not the purely military or radical revolutionary that he had been during the 1920s. In the first four weeks after its publication, ""Red Star over China"" sold over 12,000 copies, and it"
"Red Book'), and in Hunan province the outspoken wife of Chen Yun was subjected to struggle sessions and solitary confinement for the putting up of two controversial big-character posters. It was also more generally the case that those condemned in the movement were attacked for financial reasons rather than their political views or actions- for example, in Zhabei in Shanghai, only 6% of all cases in the movement were for political reasons. The crackdowns on unsavoury elements in the cities were periodic and therefore known as 'red typhoons'. In Shanghai, under the guidance of Wang Hongwen, these 'red typhoons' occurred"
"Builder"" (Chuangye Shi 創業史) by Liu Qing 柳青, ""The Song of Youth"" (Qing Chun Zhi Ge 青春之歌) by Yang Mo, ""Tracks in the Snowy Forest"" (Lin Hai Xue Yuan 林海雪原) by Qu Bo, ""Keep the Red Flag Flying"" (Hong Qi Pu 紅旗譜) by Liang Bin 梁斌, ""The Red Sun"" (Hong Ri 紅日) by Wu Qiang 吳強, and ""Red Crag"" by Luo Guangbin 羅廣斌 and Yang Yiyan (楊益言). During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Mao's wife, Jiang Qing led the campaign against ""feudal"" and ""bourgeois"" culture. The only stage productions allowed were her ""Eight Model Operas,"" which combined traditional and western forms,"
"turned on those who simply failed to wholeheartedly support their efforts and intentions. In August 1966, the Central Committee issued a directive entitled the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Party Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” (a.k.a. the Sixteen Points) in an effort to define the revolution’s goals. Later that month, Mao began to greet huge parades of Red Guards holding aloft his Little Red Book. The movement grew but also splintered into independent movements and Red Guard factions, each with its own vision of the movement. Despite official directives and encouragement from the Party leadership, local"
"most important single source regarding his life"" and offered important insights into ""Mao's own vision of his past."" Red Star Over China Red Star Over China, a 1937 book by Edgar Snow, is an account of the Communist Party of China that was written when it was a guerrilla army and still obscure to Westerners. Along with Pearl S. Buck's ""The Good Earth"" (1931), it was the most influential book on Western understanding of China as well as the most influential book on Western sympathy for Red China in the 1930s. In ""Red Star Over China"", Edgar Snow recounts the"
"the red flag and hammer and sickle emblem of the Soviet Union, which became the national symbols when the Party took power in China in 1949. Under Party leader Mao Zedong, the Party anthem became ""The East Is Red"", and Mao Zedong himself was sometimes referred to as a ""red sun"". During the Cultural Revolution in China, Party ideology was enforced by the Red Guards, and the sayings of Mao Zedong were published as a small red book in hundreds of millions of copies. Today the Communist Party of China claims to be the largest political party in the world,"
"other retired generals in opposing the enforcement of martial law by the Army in Beijing. General Xiao was also a noted author. He wrote a fictionalised account of his experiences leading the Sixth Red Army Group in a breakout of the Nationalist's Fifth Encirclement Campaign, ""Blood on the Luoxiao Mountains"" (浴血罗霄), for which he was awarded the prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize. His other works include the book ""Sidelights on the Red Army of Zhu & Mao"" (朱毛红军侧记). He died in Beijing on the morning of October 24, 2008. Despite several English news sources giving his age at the time"
"Red Flag (magazine) The Red Flag () was a theoretical political journal published by the Chinese Communist Party. It was one of the ""Two Newspapers and One Magazine""(两报一刊) during the 1960s and 1970s. The newspapers were ""People's Daily"" and ""Guangming Daily"". ""People's Liberation Army Daily"" is also regarded as one of them. ""Red Flag"" was started during the Great Leap Forward era in 1958. The journal was the successor to another journal, ""Study"" (""Xuexi""). Its name was given by Mao Tse-tung. Chen Boda was the editor of the journal, which served as a crucial media outlet during the Cultural Revolution."
"Spring"". In 1966, when Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school, high school, and college students answered Mao's call, organized as the ""Red Guards"" to rebel and root out the ""capitalist roaders"" in the Chinese Communist Party. But, in 1969, for restoring the social order, Mao launched the ""Down to the Countryside Movement"" to exile the ""Red Guards"" to rural areas. This movement caused a lot of red guards to feel abandoned by Mao. In 1971, Lin Biao's attempted coup and death deeply shook the people's faith on Mao and the Cultural Revolution. On November"