Episode 18 - WHAT WAS THE "LITTLE RED BOOK"?

The "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" or "The Little Red Book" is one of the best selling and most controversial books ever written. It is also one of the quintessential symbols of the Cultural Revolution, radical leftist ideology, and the general zeitgeist of the Global Sixties. This month's thematic episode will have us dive into the history, development, and spread of the Little Red Book that was called a "spiritual atom bomb" by the Chinese people.