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Chairman Mao at the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China, August 1966
Chairman Mao at the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China, August 1966 --...
Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20222 min read


Communists should be the advanced elements of the proletariat
Cover of the booklet, 1970 Some of the Chairman Mao quotes from the booklet: - The Party organization should be composed of the advanced...
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #777
Chairman Mao reviews a march in Beijing from Tiananmen Gate, late August 1966 -- Daily LIFT #777
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #774
Mao and his daughter Li Min, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #774
Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20221 min read


PLA Day, August 1
Mao marches with PLA soldiers August 1 is PLA Day or Army Day in the People's Republic of China. It celebrates the formation of the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #764
Kim Il Sung and Mao enjoying a chat and cigarette in China, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #765
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #763
Mao and Khrushchev in Beijing, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #763
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #724
Rostrum at the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #724
Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #711
Mao with Soong Ching-ling, May 1961 -- Daily LIFT #711 They were meeting in Shanghai by a portrait of her former husband, Sun Yat-sen....
Michael Laxer
May 14, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #703
Chairman Mao in Zhongnanhai, 1969, poster People's Republic of China -- Daily LIFT #703 The slogans read "Long live the great Chinese...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #691
Kim Il Sung, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Zhou Enlai and Song Qingling at a celebration for the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's...
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20221 min read


DPRK releases two remarkable historical overviews on anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth
The DPRK's Foreign Languages Publishing House has published two looks at the long friendship between the People's Republic of China, the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #654
Chairman Mao visits with his childhood school teacher Mao Juju when travelling back to his hometown, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #654 Mao credited...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20221 min read


The Communist fight to liberate China, 1945
Three members of the Chinese Communist forces -- including one who had lost an arm in battle -- learning to use captured Japanese machine...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 202210 min read


Daily LIFT #651
People's Republic of China Vice Foreign Minister Wang Hairong, Mao and Kim Il Sung at a meeting in China, 1975. -- Daily LIFT #651 It was...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #650
Edgar Snow and Mao, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #650 American journalist Edgar Snow travelled to Xi'an, China where he met with Communist leader...
Michael Laxer
Feb 15, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #646
Mao with members of the People's Liberation Army's navy units, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #646
Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20221 min read


An engine named for Chairman Mao: A train from revolutionary China
In October, 1946 Chinese railway workers in Harbin, China -- which had been newly liberated by the People's Liberation Army -- used scrap...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11, 20228 min read


Daily LIFT #625
Khrushchev, Mao and Ho Chi Minh share a drink, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #625
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20221 min read


Mao Zedong b. Dec 26, 1893
"All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a...
Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20211 min read
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