On Nov. 25, 1968, as the Cultural Revolution raged in China, the government issued a stamp called “Whole Country Is Red,” with a scarlet map of the nation. Within half a day of its release, post offices were told to pull it.

That’s after an editor at the China Atlas Press complained that Xisha and Nansha, islands in the South China Sea known as the Paracel and Spratly, were omitted on the map, said Jeffrey Schneider, a British Philatelic Association member whose company is holding a Jan. 31 auction of Hong Kong stamps.

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