Sunday, May 26, 2013

BIG BLUES IN MAO'S LITTLE RED BOOK


A  modern , illustrated , perhaps pirated, Chinese-English   edition   of  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, above right , contains numerous  errors . Starting  with  the  famous   call   for  workers of  the  world  to   become  one, the slogan reads :  WORKERS  OF  ALL COUNTRES (sic),UNITE!  Then  follows  a series  of  coloured  photos   of  Mao  which includes   his   famous   1966  river swim  .  The  contents  page  has   a  number  of   typographical  and  literal  errors .  These  include  the “Orrect  handling of Con-tradications “Among the People ; Dare to ” Truggleand”  Dare  to  Win. The   translator   refers   to  the  first English edition of  the  book  or  pamphlet cited  as “buplished”by  the  Foreign Languages Press,   Peking .   The heading  on  the first  chapter is   1.THE COMMUNIST PAPTY(sic) .Only  following  the  Marxist Leninist ” revo Lutionary “style  will  defeat imperialism  and its running  dogs .Thereafter there are numerous  typographic errors.  Chapter   3   is  headed SOCIALISM ANDCOMMUNISM, chapter six , IMPERIALISM AND  ALLREACTIONARIES  AREPAPER TIGERS.

The other  Red  Book , above ,  on the  left ,   is  a  1966   first  English  edition  published  by the Foreign  Languages  Press,  Peking, without  apparent  errors ,  many  copies of  which  were  sold  in  Australia , one  Sydney outlet   stamping  each  copy  that it  did not necessarily  agree  with  the  views expressed  herein.