On one side swarmed the Red Guards, the teenage, slogan-drunk students turned loose upon the land by Mao Tse-tung to spearhead his fanatical Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Opposing them ...
Diary of Liu Ying-chun, a young soldier The Communist Chinese newspapers ran excerpts from Liu Ying-chun's diary under large headlines this July, just before the Red Guards began their summer ...
Confucius Last week Mao Tse-tung’s Red Guards went to Shantung province and wrecked the birthplace of Confucius. For 2,400 years, the Chinese have studied his counsels of moderation and nonviolence.
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 ...
What’s happening now with Chairman Musk’s takeover of our government reminds me of the Cultural Revolution in China when the Red Guards, all young people, invaded homes and institutions and ...