Chinese Mao Zedong Circular Lapel Pin

Pink sky with small clouds, and a figure in a long coat above olive hills.

This Mao Zedong circular lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is metal. Propaganda posters of the era generally pictured a utopian society, with smiling farmers, brave soldiers and happy people gathered around Mao, who was cast as a benevolent father and wise teacher. Tall standing figure in a long coat, a hat held in one hand, rises from the right side of a pink sky pocked with white clouds. Olive and gold hills with red shrubs fill the left edge. It is 3.5 inches in diameter.

Pink skies and olive hills make an unlikely pair.