Regular 1st printing and Special Edition of "Party: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" by Christina de Middel. Based on Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book. Conceived by de Middel after her first trip to China, in 2012. De Middel returned from China with an extensive series of photographs which at first she found hard to classify and edit since their only common denominator was her own astonishment. But she soon realised that their very resistance to classification was the key to their ability to show us what China is today. She decided to adapt Chairman Mao Tse-Tung’s Little Red Book (which in the 1960s was the single most visible icon in mainland China, even more visible than the image of Chairman Mao himself) as a framework for the photographs to create a narrative for modern times. Censoring or hiding parts of the original text and highlighting and altering other parts, she presents a portrait of the People’s Republic of China in the 21st century. Both of these copies are SIGNED and published in 2013 - The special edition is bound in black PVC rather than red and comes in a gold box and signed and numbered print (edition of 25).