Chairman Mao Zedong Badges & Ephemera

A few months ago, Mike posted a link to his collection of Mao badges over at Flickr. He’s also translating the Chinese-language characters found on the fronts and backs of the badges, making the collection a great storehouse of Cultural Revolution-era slogans as well. Enjoy!

Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial Magazine - Cover, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had any time to update the site, but I wanted to alert anyone who’s dropping by that I’ve added a new publication to my Flickr site, a September, 1970 issue of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial Magazine. Great images, and lots of copy, […]

As a native English-speaker, I occasionally forget about the wealth of Cultural Revolution-era ephemera that’s out there on Chinese-language web sites. Take the above, for instance; back in 2003 — in celebration of the 110th anniversary of Mao’s birth — the folks at the Jinan Archives Information Network assembled a small collection of Chairman Mao […]

Exhibition: Gerald Ford Presidential Museum, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
This is posted too late for anyone to act on but in going through some old emails I came across some photos I received of the exhibit Opening an Empire: U.S. Relations with China at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. The exhibition ran from October 15, […]

After 10+ years of hiding Chairman Mao Zedong Badges & Ephemera in a subdirectory over at my personal site, I’ve finally taken the plunge and given it its own domain (as well as a spiffy WordPress install). Just about everything that was over at the old site is here, and there are some new things […]

I have a new batch of Cultural Revolution LPs in hand, some of which you can view over in my Flickr photostream. I have four more on order and access to a large-format flatbed scanner, so I hope to have all of them available for review in the near future. I also have some photos […]

On the occasion of Mao’s 111th birthday, Getty Images has posted some photos of collector’s house full of Mao portraits, sculptures and badges. The large images are watermarked, which is a little distracting, but they’re interesting none the less. There’s another Getty Images gallery here, featuring some folks selling old Cultural Revolution-era posters (probably to […]

After putting it off for a couple of months, I’ve gotten around to posting a second volume of Cultural Revolution-era clip art over at Flickr. As with the last one, I’ve been translating the slogans as time permits — fortunately, my dictionary was compiled during the ’70s and contains direct translations of revolutionary slogans. Assistance […]

Among the things I’ve picked up from Sandra’s eBay store are a couple of books of Cultural Revolution-era newspaper masthead clip art. I thought about building a gallery of scans on this site, but then realized that the folks over at Flickr have provided the perfect suite of tools for archival material such as this, […]

Bill Joseph recently posted a comment to this site containing some excellent links to Cultural Revolution-related material over at wellesley.edu. I thought I’d repost them here for anyone who might have missed them:

MP3s of Cultural Revolution-era songs.
Photos from Mr. Joseph’s 1972 trip to China.
A collection of China-related political links.

As someone who lived in Beijing until […]