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Red Guard leaders, led by Nie Yuanzi, also gave speeches. [1] A high school Red Guard leader, Song Binbin, placed a red armband inscribed with the characters for "Red Guard" on the chairman, who stood for six hours. [1] The 8-18 Rally, as it was known, was the first of eight receptions the Chairman gave to Red Guards in Tiananmen in the fall of ...
In propaganda writings, such as PLA's legendary communist soldier Lei Feng's Diary, loud slogans and fiery speeches significantly elevated the cult of Mao. The following quote epitomizes the Red Guards' thoughts surrounding Chairman Mao, in their manifesto they wrote: "We are the red guards of Chairman Mao, we make the country writhe in ...
Across the colony's northern border was a tumultuous People's Republic of China (PRC), with Red Guards carrying out purges and engaging in infighting amidst the Cultural Revolution. To the west of Hong Kong, in the Portuguese colony of Macau , two months of violent clashes between colonial police and pro-CCP demonstrators had just ended.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), struggle sessions were widely conducted by Red Guards and various rebel groups across mainland China. [4] [5] [9] [10] Though there was no specific definition for the "targets of struggle", they included the Five Black Categories and anyone else who could be deemed an enemy of Mao Zedong Thought ...
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution began. In middle schools and universities, the Red Guards spread rapidly as a new student organization.. On February 4, 1967, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issued the "Notice on the Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Primary Schools (Draft)", [3] proposing that primary schools are "an important front" in the Cultural Revolution, and ...
Rebel groups of Red Guards marching in Shanghai, 1967. During the Cultural Revolution, a Rebel Faction (Chinese: 造反派; pinyin: Zàofǎn pài) referred to a group or a sociopolitical movement that was self-proclaimed "rebellious". Composed of workers and students, they were often the more radical wing of the Red Guards and grew around 1967 ...
Anti-Chen propaganda poster published by the Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation in 1967. The Wuhan incident ( Chinese : 七二零事件 ; pinyin : Qī èrlíng shìjiàn ; lit. 'July 20th Incident') was an armed conflict in the People's Republic of China between two hostile groups who were fighting for control over the city of Wuhan in July 1967 ...
In it, two groups of Red Guards, the Jinggangshan Corps and the Fours, hurled spears, stones, and sulfuric acid at each other. On July 27, 1968, Mao sent 30,000 Beijing factory workers, who came to be known as the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team, to stop the conflict. Half a dozen workers were killed and over 700 were wounded.