Chairman Mao writes his dazibao "Bombard the Headquarters", oil painting, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2070

Study Mao Zedong Thought - silk wall mural Illustration, late 1960s, People's Republic of China -- Daily LIFT #2065

Chairman Mao (second from right) with members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1939 -- Daily LIFT #2060

Mao and Zhou Enlai receive the cast members of Taking the Bandits' Stronghold staged by the Shanghai Peking Opera Company, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2052

From the PRC Press: Chairman Mao, our most respected and beloved great leader, had a good swim in the Yangtse River, braving the wind and waves on July 16 last year (1966). It left on indelible, happy memory in our minds and greatly inspired, the people throughout China and the world to go forward courageously in the storms of class struggle. Translation of the poem first published in English in 1967. Swimming to the melody Shui Tiao Keh Tou (2) I have just drunk the waters o

Chairman Mao with model workers at the 2nd Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference -- Daily LIFT #2042

A poem written by Rewi Alley in memory of Edgar Snow after his death in 1972. Looking out at me from the morning's paper the quiet steady face the understanding eyes of the American dreamer who saw how dreams could be made come true and who caught some of the fire of the Chinese Revolution and its leadership so that along with them, as they so incredibly fought, did he fight with his pen for all he came to believe in. Yes, he suffered all right, not simple to face those wild

Photographers Xu Xiaobing and Hou Bo with Mao Zedong 1949 -- Daily LIFT #2036 Xu Xiaobing and Hou Bo, who were married, were famed photographers of Mao and the revolutionary process in China.

The People's Liberation Army should be a great school. In this school, our army should study politics and military affairs, raise its educational level, and also engage in agriculture and side-occupations and run small or medium-sized factories to make products for its own needs or for exchange with the state against equal values. Our army should also do mass work and participate in the socialist education movement in the factories and the villages. When the socialist educati

"The Working-Class Must Exercise Leadership in Everything", poster, People's Republic of China, May 1, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #2035 The working class must exercise leadership in everything. The people's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails

“All people in the revolutionary ranks must care for each other, must love and help each other.", Quotation from Chairman Mao, illustration, People's Republic of China, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #2033

Cover of the 1972 book On the Long March with Chairman Mao by Chen Chang-Feng -- Daily LIFT #2025

Attlee, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, Germany, circa 28 July -- 1 August 1945 By Urariano Mota Historical records indicate that the Potsdam Conference took place in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), beginning on 17 July 1945. The participants were the victorious Allies of the Second World War, amongst whom Stalin stood out with the glorious Red Army. Now and always is the time to stand firm against all propaganda from capitalist countries: this overwhelming victory of the Red A

Image via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mai Xiande (born 1945) is a Chinese naval hero in the People’s Liberation Army Navy, celebrated for his extraordinary bravery during a 1965 naval battle and honored with the national title of “People’s Hero.” Mai Xiande was born into a poor boat family in Raoping County, Guangdong Province, China, in 1945. He left school after completing the first year of junior high in 1961 and joined the local

Scene of the dock workers bursting into a song full of internationalist spirit in the revolutionary opera On the Docks, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2011 From the PRC Press: "A revolutionary Peking Opera on a contemporary theme which portrays how a group of Chinese workers in the 60's, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought and the proletarian internationalist spirit, rush to load grain going to support the anti-imperialist struggles being waged by the people of

Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. From China Reconstructs Magazine, 1972 By TANG YING-KUANG ON Hsingyeh Street in Shanghai stands an ordinary two-story building of grey brick, with arch shaped lintels above doors with brass-covered iron knockers. Here, in a front room on the ground floor, the founding meeting of the Communist Party of China began its sessions. The building is now preserved as a historical site, with the long table and twelve

"Study Mao Zedong Thought, Be the Successors of Communism", poster You Longgu, People's Republic of China, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #2008

Mao Zedong reading a book about leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin, Yan'an, 1939 -- Daily LIFT #2007

Mao Zedong at the beach at Beidaihe in 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1983

Mao Family Portrait, 1949 -- Daily LIFT #1982