Author: Melissa Schrift
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813529370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An innovative look at the changing symbolic value of Chairman Mao badges, from the Cultural Revolution to the present day. Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge is a work of cultural history that contributes to our understanding not only of Chinese society but, more generally, of strategies people employ in responding to and transforming the meaning of propaganda campaigns and symbols.