Chairman Mao Badges

[Tal Inbar]

Admittedly, there were thousands if not tens of thousands of these

As the author of the book tells:

"The starting point for this book is the very modest collection of
almost 350 Chairman Mao badges at the British Museum. It is a
small but manageable number from which to begin to explore
the repertoire of symbolic imagery and inscriptions of the
Cultural Revolution (1966–76). Serious collections of Mao
badges in China start at 10,000 different specimens, and as a
result, Chinese catalogues present hundreds, sometimes
thousands, of badges. Yet they seldom explain the images or
the texts in a consistent way."