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33047402 — Guangzhou 1969 Jun Houqin Bu Weishung. Red vinyl covers very clean Chinese language 12150p. many text drawings 35 x 26.8 cm folding mended plate of accupuncture points book size: 6.8 x 9.2 cm. RARE FIRST EDITION . . . WEN HUA DA GEMING CULTURAL REVOLUTION MEDICAL HANDBOOK . . . DESIGNED FOR HONG WEI BING RED GUARD "BAREFOOT DOCTORS" . . . INCLUDING "XIN ZHEN LIAO FA SHOUCE Neibùu Ziliao": . . "New Needle Acupuncture Therapy Handbook" . . With Internal Information . . . WITH MAO AND LIN BIAO SLOGAN'S . An original pictorial reference issued to Hong Wei Bing Red Guard "Barefoot Doctors" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution to provide medical treatment for agrarian peasants. . "HONG BAO SHU" "PRECIOUS LITTLE RED BOOK": . The first Hong Bao Shu were issued in 1966 which contained the words wisdom and slogans of Chairman Mao. Later the same format continued and any small book with red vinyl covers issued during the Cultural Revolution were all called Hong Bao Shu. This is a small format book ca. 10 x 13.3 cm. . XIAO HONG BAO: LITTLE RED SHOULDER BAG: Often during the Cultural Revolution Hong Bao Shu were commonly carried by youthful and highly energetic & loyally devoted Hong Wei Bing members in a small red cotton cloth shoulder bag. They are very rare and seldom found with a long shoulder-strap attached to a purse/bag. They were often decorated with Mao's likeness and some iconic slogans usually by Chairman Mao or those by Marshal LIN Biao in his calligraphic yellow stenciled-printed decorations. Please see examples posted to our website with title: XIAO HONG BAO. . THE SUBJECT: Covers diagnosis of illness treatment for adults and children acupressure acupuncture and other basic forms of medical treatment where doctors and hospitals were unknown and very far from any hospital or large city. . Also: General knowledge of new needle therapy Acupuncture points with many illustrations showing the locations throughout the whole body . Issued by the Military Region Logistics Department Ministry of Health in 1966 to "Barefoot Doctors" who went to the country side to administer to small villages without hospital or doctors. . Some Hong Wei Bing became "Barefoot Doctors" as part of their contribution to the Cultural Revolution which also radically diminished the influence of the Ministry of Health then dominated by Western-trained doctors. With the onset of market-oriented reforms after the Cultural Revolution political support for barefoot doctors dissipated and "health-care crises' of peasants substantially increased after the system broke down in the 1980's. Extracted from Wikipedia below. . THE SLOGANS: This work contains five Mao slogans in red ink. Followed by two of LIN Biao's most famous slogans also in red ink. These are found before the title page issued as frontispieces. . See photos posted to our website: illus08.jpg and others. . These are: a. His November 29th 1967: "The sea sails byte helmsman and the revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought." . b. "Read Chairman Mao's book; Listen to Chairman Mao's words: Follow Chairman Mao's instructions." . These iconic slogans were found in the first of the "Little Red Books" invented written by and for Mao with Lin's slogans. From these books emanated the Mao cult with loyalty from the Red Guards. . There is an introduction: MAO ZHU XI YU LU: QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO 3 unnumbered pages followed by the title page. . THE COLOPHON: As usual for an early Cultural Revolution "Little Red Book" this one lacks the typical colophon commonly found on the last page. Regardless there is ample bibliographical information located on the title page. . Color scans are posted to our website. . CONDITION: This work is bound in the publisher's red vinyl covers with blind-stamped title on cover lacking the gilt color as usual. The contents are brilliantly clean no marks stains or detractions. . REFERENCES: . en-wikipedia-org/wiki/Barefoot_doctor . . unknown