The platform is largely known as RedNote, but literally translates to "Little Red Book" — a historically laden phrase in China, where that was the title of a book of quotations by People's Republic ...

The platform is largely known as RedNote, but literally translates to "Little Red Book ... of a book of quotations by People's Republic China founder and longtime leader Mao Zedong.

According to the BBC, The Little Red Book, or Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, was propaganda that become mandatory to own and carry one during China’s “Cultural Revolution” in the 1960s.

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The “little red book” is reportedly a nod to the colors of Stanford and Bain Capital, where one of the app’s founders Charlwin Mao attended college and worked. Wired reporter Zeyi Yang suggests it may ...

The app, which means “Little Red Book ... a tongue-in-cheek reference to a red-covered book of quotations from the founding father of Communist China, Mao Zedong. One of the app’s key ...