Mao, it is said, was delighted with this spontaneous activity, gave it his blessing, and the Red Guards were born. The Red Guard movement merged naturally with Mao's purge of undesirable Party ...

Imagine a time traveller from Mao Zedong’s China – say a Red Guard – landing in a Chinese city today, nearly half a century ...

In China, Song Binbin was the face of Cultural Revolution turmoil, the Red Guard who helped spark the deadly persecution of ...

Beating drums and gongs and waving their talismanic little red books of Mao, the Red Guards were at it again last week, surging in frenzied rhythm through the streets of Peking, Shanghai ...

Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 196667 during the Cultural Revolution A group of students at Qinghua University who issued 2 bigcharacter posters in MayJune 1966 ...

More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's Cultural Revolution. In 1966, the Red Guards ...