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Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge
Melissa Schrift
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Description for Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge
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With the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, the regime of Chairman Mao Zedong launched a propaganda campaign aimed at disseminating inspiring images of the chairman to a skeptical populace. Thus was born the "Mao badge," a political icon in the form of a pin that was widely distributed to create, sustain, and inflate the Mao personality cult during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Scholars estimate that over two billion Mao badges, featuring over fifty thousand different designs and themes, were produced.
As China now enters an era in which people can more openly express their views about the ... Read more
With the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, the regime of Chairman Mao Zedong launched a propaganda campaign aimed at disseminating inspiring images of the chairman to a skeptical populace. Thus was born the "Mao badge," a political icon in the form of a pin that was widely distributed to create, sustain, and inflate the Mao personality cult during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Scholars estimate that over two billion Mao badges, featuring over fifty thousand different designs and themes, were produced.
As China now enters an era in which people can more openly express their views about the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813529370
SKU
V9780813529370
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About Melissa Schrift
Melissa Schrift is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Marquette University.
Reviews for Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge
This interesting book belongs on the shelf of those of us interested in the material culture of the Cultural Revolution.
China Journal
Strangely moving. . . . While [in China, Schrift] discovered a subculture of people who collected buttons bearing portraits of the Great Helmsman: thousands of varieties had been manufactured from the Cultural Revolution, when they served ... Read more
China Journal
Strangely moving. . . . While [in China, Schrift] discovered a subculture of people who collected buttons bearing portraits of the Great Helmsman: thousands of varieties had been manufactured from the Cultural Revolution, when they served ... Read more