MAO, Zedong.

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Collection of Cultural Revolution chinaware celebrating National Day. Politics comes to the kitchen and living room: a selection of chinaware, each piece adorned with balloons, streamers, and a red vignette of Tiananmen flanked by red flags. During the Cultural Revolution, when such pieces became de rigueur in homes and workplaces, National Day was marked with a huge parade down Beijing's Chang'an Avenue and numerous events in every city, town, and village.

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