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Chinese collection:Lot of 150+ kinds Mao tse-tung badges

Contain 150+ mao tse-tung badges

and only about 20 badges was repetition

produce year:1950S-1970S

Very high collection value

only one in worldwide

Have grumous Cultural Revolution characteristic

Mao Zedong , Political Leader

Born: 26 December 1893 Birthplace: XiangTan , Hunan Province , China Died: 9 September 1976 (Natural causes) Best Known As: Head of the People's Republic of China , 1949-76

Mao Zedong (also Mao Tse-Tung) was the world's most prominent Chinese communist during the 20th century. Mao's Red Army overthrew Chiang Kai-Shek in 1949, and the communists seized power of mainland China . Ruthless and ambitious, Mao turned China into a world military power and created a cult of personality, forcing the distribution of his image and his "Little Red Book" (a collection of political maxims) upon the Chinese people. His campaign to export communism made China a threat to the West and led to confrontations in Southeast Asia and Korea . Under Mao's rule China endured a series of economic disasters and political terrorism, but for more than 25 years Mao was China , as far as the rest of the world was concerned. After his death, leaders like Deng Xiaoping steered the country away from pure communism, and the Cult of Mao began to disappear. These days Mao is ranked among the worst of 20th century dictators. alongside Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler .

(b. Shaoshan, Hunan Province , 26 Dec. 1893; d. 9 Sept. 1976) Chinese; chairman of the Chinese Communist party 1935 - 76, paramount leader of the People's Republic of China 1949 - 76 Mao Zedong was the single most influential figure in Chinese politics in the twentieth century. Even after his death, his legacy for Chinese politics was immense -- indeed the continued use of the term "post-Mao" China to define the current epoch is testimony to his importance and standing. As Mao was also a crucial player in global politics for three decades, he was quite simply one of the most important leaders in the world.
While many other Chinese Communist leaders spent some time in France or Moscow , Mao's formative political experiences were all in China . The young Mao spent much of his spare time travelling in the local countryside, talking to the local peasants about their problems. Like many of his generation, he was later inspired by opposition to the oppressive Confucian family system. In many ways, the translation of Ibsen's A Doll's House was more of an inspiration to Mao's generation than translations of Marx, Engels, and Lenin . Indeed, Mao did not have a particularly good knowledge of the major Communist texts, and in later life often made a virtue out of his experiences with the Chinese people, extolling the importance of "seeking truth from facts" at the expense of book-learned socialism.
Whilst enrolled as a mature teacher-training student in Changsha in 1913, Mao first became involved in political organization and mobilization under the influence of his first mentor, the philosopher Yang Changji. In 1918, Yang helped Mao secure a job under the Marxist theoretician, Li Dazhao in the Beijing University library, which marked Mao's conversion from liberal to Marxist. Nevertheless, although Mao was a founder member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, he still did not have a firm understanding of the basics of Marxism at this time.
On Moscow 's instructions, the Communists joined a United Front with the Nationalists in the early 1920s, and Mao was placed in charge of the peasant work department w he undertook a study of the situation in rural Hunan . Mao became convinced that the peasantry and not the urban proletariat would be the source of revolution in China . This view was antithetical to the official party line, and resulted in much criticism from both Moscow and the party leaders in Shanghai . Mao retained a fierce grudge against his critics during this period, particularly those who he felt were isolated...

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