Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, taken from the pocket-sized, vinyl-bound “little red book” that swept the world in the late 1960s, must represent one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the ...

The era of Little Red Book was over, its power gone. Only the memory remained. Listen to the documentary Mao's Little Red Book Goes West on Radio 4, Friday 5 February at 11am and then online.