"To Read Too Many Books is Harmful" (Mao Zedong)
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Shao Hua, Shao Qinglin
1976, June
Herdspeople love to read books by Marx and Lenin
Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu
Renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. 8027.6304
Call number: BG E15/199
Obviously, the successive campaigns to combat illiteracy that we've seen earlier had been a success, to the extent that even the members of the proletariat had become skilful Marxist-Leninist theoreticians. The slogan in the bookstore - in Chinese and Mongolian - reads "Read and study conscientiously and get a good grasp of Marxism".
