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ZFC2019

China Workers-Peasant-Student Armband.

Sub-collection: China

China Workers-Peasant-Student Revolutionary Rebel Field Operations Corps, City of Tianjin, unnumbered armband.
This armband would have been worn by Mao supporters at political rallies and other communist functions. The civil strife in China that began in 1966 and continued until Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976 is known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a popular uprising against the entrenched authority and bureaucracy of the Party and government. It has also been seen as a power struggle; a purge by Mao (espousing permanent revolution) of his political opponents, known as the "Rightists."

Mao Zedong relied on the Peoples Liberation Army and The Socialist Education Movement to indoctrinate young people, especially in rural areas, with his ideas.

These groups of young people eventually became known as Red Guards and were readily identifiable by their red armbands and the Mao's ubiquitous Little Red Book.

The famous 'Little Red Book', would become the Bible of the Cultural Revolution and the sight of huge crowds wearing armbands and waving this book and chanting slogans from it would become one of its most enduring images

In the end, it would seem that the Cultural Revolution, instigated by the Party's chief radical, achieved nothing but chaos and violence.

ZFC Important Flag

Sources



The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Andover High School, May 29, 20121, From: http://www.csimpson80.com/new_page_12.htm

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Islandnet.com, May 29, 2012, From: http://www.islandnet.com/~ltmurnau/text/cultrev.htm



Hoist & Fly

Width of Hoist 7.25
Length of Fly 18

Frame

Is it framed? no

Stars

Are there stars on obverse? no
Are there stars on reverse? no

Stripes

Has a Blood Stripe? no

Crest/Emblem

Description of Crest/Emblem Worker-peasant-student revolutionary rebel

Field operations corps

City of Tianjin, Number __

Nationality

Nation Represented China

Fabric

Fabric Cotton

Applica

Applique Sides Single Sided = Design on one side only

Documentation

Documents
All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.
Drawings
All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.

Condition

Condition Good
Damage Used.
Displayable yes

Date

Date 1968