The East is Red

 

             NEW in August 2005          

 

BKS 00096

Membership Application for Communist Party Youth League

This is an absolutely fascinating historical document from the Cultural Revolution. The Communist Party recruited early and this application shows the type of person that was accepted as a youth party member. Meet Mr. Cheng, a young man of 15 who described his family as, 'Poor Peasants', and claimed his immediate and extended family (uncles & grandfather) had a 'clean political record'.

Price: US $145                                          more....

Location: Beijing, China

BKS 00285

North Korea's Unbreakable Friendship with China

Trace the history of the long friendship between China and North Korea - a friendship that continues to this day. The banner under Chairman Mao and Kim Il Sung reads, "Long live the unbreakable friendship and the union of the people in both China and Korea!".

Price: US $12                                         more....

Location: Beijing, China

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BKS 00274

Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political College

This is an excellent example of an important institution in China that is largely unknown outside China. This is entitled, "An Introduction to the Exhibition of the History of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political College". Contained within are several pages of calligraphy by Mao Tse-Tung and the history of the College.

Price: US $15                                           more....

Location: Beijing, China 

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BKS 00372

Graduation Diploma

Meet Guo Yuling from the No. 9 Jilin Middle School. She graduated in 1973 after successfully completing the 5 year plan of study. The Diploma bears the offical red seal of the school over the picture of Ms. Guo. Chairman Mao makes his presence felt with a quotation on the left side.

Price: US $33                                          more....

Location: Beijing, China

BKS 00328

Extracts from Comrade Lin Biao's Speeches

Comrade Lin Biao, the most trusted lieutenant of Chairman Mao...until implicated in a plot to overthrow Mao in 1971. Following his death under unusual circumstances, Lin's image was systematically erased from Chinese history. The fact that some documents, such as this book, survived has left us a fantastic record of the impact of Lin Biao on the Cultural Revolution.

Price: US $50                                         more....

Location: Beijing, China

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SGN 00001

Quotation from Chairman Mao Sign

This is an aluminum sign with a quotation from Chairman Mao in red from the famous story, "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains".

Price: US $12                                       more....  

Location: Beijing, China

RCD 00020

Red Army Songs

This is a special record of Red Army songs, "The Red Army Fears Not the Trial of a Distant March", referencing the Long March that the Amry endured in the 1930's.

Price: US $30                                        more....

Location: Beijing, China

PIC 00026

North Korea Remembers Chairman Mao

In 1993, on the 100th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s birth, the DPRK, aka North Korea, issued a special set of commemorative stamps to mark the auspicious occasion.

Price: US $50                                           more....

Location: Beijing, China

PIN 00117

Korean War - Chinese PLA Volunteers Patch 

Red China raised an army to fight with their communist brothers in Korea; the name given to this army was "The Chinese People's Volunteer Army". They helped change the course of history in the Korean War.

Price: US $55                                       more....

Location: Beijing, China

PIN 00077

Pressed Metal Chairman Mao Relief Sign

This is a very unusual and unique piece. Chairman Mao's profile has been stamped into a round piece of metal with plum blossoms under Mao in quite amazing detail.

Price: US $30                                      more....

Location: Beijing, China

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Unsold items from July have been added to the respective pages on our website.