{"id":62184,"date":"2024-02-27T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/mao-little-red-book-rare-copy-expected-to-fetch-more-than-30000-pounds-auction"},"modified":"2024-02-27T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:44:03","slug":"rare-copy-of-maos-little-red-book-expected-to-fetch-more-than-30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62184","title":{"rendered":"Rare copy of Mao\u2019s Little Red Book expected to fetch more than \u00a330,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefacts<\/p>\n<p>The Little Red Book, a talisman of 20th-century Maoism, may have fallen out of favour in China after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/may\/11\/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion\">Cultural Revolution<\/a>, but its popularity with collectors shows no sign of abating.<\/p>\n<p>The book, officially entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/27\/mao-little-red-book-revamp\">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong<\/a>, was given its popular name due to the bright red cover of mass-produced editions. A rare prototype version is about to resurface in a sale by a west London auction house of hundreds of artefacts from the Cultural Revolution, where it is expected to fetch more than \u00a330,000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/mao-little-red-book-rare-copy-expected-to-fetch-more-than-30000-pounds-auction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefactsThe Little Red Book, a talisman of 20th-century Maoism, may have fallen out of favour in China after the Cultural Revolution, but its popularity with co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,50,71,695,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-china","category-culture","category-mao-zedong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62185,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62184\/revisions\/62185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}