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Object #     2001-11/127
Object name     Badge
Culture of Origin     Cultural Revolution, China
Materials     Badge
Dimensions     Diam: 5.5 cm
Exhibit Label    

BADGES: Everyone wore Mao badges. There was a brisk trade in badges from different places with different motifs. In general, Mao faces left on badges, sybolizing the leftist movement.

On these badges, look for:
sunflowers (which always face the sun of Mao)
Nanjing Bridge, a major structure completed in 1968
book images, representing selected writings of Mao.

Badge bottom center:
Tiananmen Gate (Gate of Heavenly Peace), the political center of China

Badge far left:
Revolutionary peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America raise their adoring hands to Mao.
Source     Museum Expedition - Anthropology Division
Location     Yuyuan, Shanghai
 
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