Designer: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House Propaganda Poster Group (上海人民美术出版社宣传画组)
1966, September
Criticize the old world and build a new world with Mao Zedong Thought as a weapon
Yi Mao Zedong sixiang wei wuqi pipan jiu shijie jianshe xin shijie (以毛泽东思想为武器批判旧世界建设新世界)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 108x77 cm.
Call number: BG E15/699 (Landsberger collection)

The Little Red Book features quotations from Mao’s writings. It is small and bound in a red plastic cover so you can always carry it with you. A good Red Guard knows the book by heart and rarely reads anything else.