《毛主席语录》是文革时期中国最流行的书,也是文革期间在国外最流行的中国书。资料显示,文革中,主要是六十年代中后期,《毛主席语录》在国内外出版了50多种文字,有500多种版本,总印数50多亿册,被输出到亚非拉等150多个国家,连60年代的美国黑人反政府分子都人手一册。当时,全世界30多亿人口,人均拥有《毛主席语录》1.5册有余。它创造了中国图书出版发行史不可逾越的记 Quotations from Chairman Mao is the most popular book in China during the Cultural Revolution, and the most popular book in China abroad during the Cultural Revolution. Statistics show that in the Cultural Revolution, mainly in the mid-to-late 1960s, “Quotations from Chairman Mao” published more than 50 kinds of texts at home and abroad, with more than 500 versions and a total print volume of over 5 billion and was exported to Asia, More than 150 countries, even the Afro-American anti-government elements in the 1960s, have a manual. At that time, more than 3 billion people in the world owned more than 1.5 copies of “Quotations from Chairman Mao”. It has created an insurmountable record in the history of Chinese book publishing