A Cultural Revolution Receipt

 

This receipt, issued in 1975, from a Xinhua Bookstore in Beijing shows the type of products on offer in bookstores at the time. From top-to-bottom, left-to-right, the categories of merchandise include:

  • Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin
  • Works of Chairman Mao
  • Images of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin
  • Images of Chairman Mao 
  • Textbooks
  • Pictures and photographs
  • Books
  • Other items

I found this receipt tucked inside a book in a Beijing secondhand book market in July 2015.