«Who, What, Why: What is the Little Red Book?». BBC News(en inglés). 26 de noviembre de 2015. Consultado el 20 de mayo de 2024. «It's an icon of China and communism as well as a work of propaganda. More than a billion copies have been published, making the book, often wrapped in its distinctive vinyl cover, one of the most widely produced of all time. During China's "Cultural Revolution" it became virtually mandatory to own and carry one.»
Fu, Zhengyuan (1993). «Ideology and authority under the CCP». Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics(en inglés). Cambridge University Press. p. 186. ISBN9780521442282. Consultado el 20 de mayo de 2024. «The scale of production and consumption of Mao's icons and symbols is unprecedent in human history. During the ten years from March 1966 to August 1976, there were 1,820 PRC state-owned printing factories that printed 6.5 billion volumes of Quotations from Chairman Mao (the little red book), 840 million sets of Selections of Mao Zedong's Works (3.36 billion volumes), 400 million volumes of Chairman Mao's Poems, and 2.2 billion sheets of Mao's standard photo portraits, which came in five standard sizes.»
Cook, Alexander C. (2014). Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History.(en inglés). Cambridge University Press. p. xiii. ISBN9781107057227. Consultado el 20 de mayo de 2024. «...Quotations from Chairman Mao, commonly known oytside China as the Little Red Book. At the height of its influence, the decade from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, this compact torne was the most printed book in the world.»
Allen Kent; Harold Lancour; Jay E. Daily; William Z. Nasri (1977). «People's Republic of China, Libraries in». Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science Volume 22 - Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Libraries: to Plantin: Christopher(en inglés). CRC Press. p. 31. ISBN0-8247-2022-9. Consultado el 20 de mayo de 2024. «The major publishers in China are the People's Press [Hsin-hua] in Peking, the People's Literature Pres in Pekins, and the Shanghai People's Press. Due to the size of the population, with some 800 mllion potential readers, China's publishing is characterized not so much by a great number of titles, but by the size of editions, which average 600,000 copies and may run into billions as was the case for the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. An official release states that between January and September 1974, 8,400 titles wee published in 3.1 billion copies, and this number is expected to increase.»
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Hu, Zhuangzi (30 de septiembre de 2013). «1979年《毛主席语录》因"流毒甚广"被停止发行»(en chino). 胡耀邦史料信息网. Archivado desde el original el 11 de septiembre de 2014. Consultado el 19 de mayo de 2024.
Hu, Zhuangzi (30 de septiembre de 2013). «1979年《毛主席语录》因"流毒甚广"被停止发行»(en chino). 胡耀邦史料信息网. Archivado desde el original el 11 de septiembre de 2014. Consultado el 19 de mayo de 2024.
«《毛主席语录》成为热门收藏品». news.xinhuanet.com(en chino). Xinhua. 13 de julio de 2004. Archivado desde el original el 22 de junio de 2011. Consultado el 21 de mayo de 2024.
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«《毛主席语录》成为热门收藏品». news.xinhuanet.com(en chino). Xinhua. 13 de julio de 2004. Archivado desde el original el 22 de junio de 2011. Consultado el 21 de mayo de 2024.