List of illustrations page vii
List of contributors viii
Preface xiii
1 Introduction: The spiritual atom bomb and its global fallout 1
Alexander C. Cook
2 A single spark: Origins and spread of the Little Red Book in China 23
daniel leese
3 Quotation songs: Portable media and the Maoist pop song 43
Andrew F. Jones
4 Mao quotations in factional battles and their afterlives: Episodes from Chongqing 61
Guobin Yang
5 Translation and internationalism 76
Lanjun Xu
6 Maoism in Tanzania: material connections and shared imaginaries 96
Priya Lal
7 Empty symbol: the Little Red Book in India 117
Sreemati Chakrabarti
8 The influence of Maoism in Peru 130
David Scott Palmer
9 The book that bombed: Mao’s Little Red Thing in the Soviet Union 147
Elizabeth McGuire
10 Mao and the Albanians 165
Elidor Mëhilli
11 Partisan legacies and anti-imperialist ambitions: The Little Red Book in Italy and Yugoslavia 185
Dominique Kirchner Reill
12 Badge books and brand books: The Mao Bible in East and West Germany 206
Quinn Slobodian
13 Principally contradiction: The flourishing of French Maoism 225
Julian Bourg
14 By the book: Quotations from Chairman Mao and the making of Afro-Asian radicalism, 1966–1975 245
Bill V. Mullen
15 Conclusion: In the beginning is the word: Popular democracy and Mao’s Little Red Book 266
Ban Wang
Index 278
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