This edition was published in China in 1966 by the Foreign Languages Press. It features red embossed vinyl covers, contains around 311-312 pages, and includes a frontispiece portrait of Mao and an integral ribbon bookmark. It is the correct first English-language printing, identifiable by specific features like the Lin Pao facsimile preceding the text and a printing statement in Mandarin on the colophon.
While originally produced in 1964 for the People's Liberation Army, the 1966 edition, especially the iconic red vinyl version, became widely distributed and synonymous with Mao's Cultural Revolution
