Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is comprised of statements from speeches and writings of Mao Tse-Tung, the former Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1943 to 1976. The book was originally printed in small sizes and bound in bright red covers, becoming commonly known as The Little Red Book.The contents cover a wide swath of Mao's interpretations of Marxist-Leninist thought and how it should be applied to the Chinese people and culture.