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A Critical Introduction to Mao Zedong; Cambridge University Press (2010) [ISBN missing] Van der Sprenkel, S; The Red Guards in perspective. New Society, 22 September 1966, pp. 455–456. Walder, A; 'Fractured Rebellion: the Beijing Red Guard Movement'; Harvard University Press (2009)
People gathering to read Nie Yuanzi's 1967 poster condemning Deng Xiaoping. On 25 May 1966, Nie put up a big-character poster on the campus of Peking University. The poster criticised Song Shuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal University Bureau, Lu Ping, the President of Peking University and head of its CCP committee, and Peng Peiyun, an official in the Beijing Municipal University ...
The Cultural Revolution brought to the forefront numerous power struggles both within the Communist Party, and against it from the left.Factional conflict between Red Guard and rebel organizations happened for a wide range of reasons: some purely for the seizure and dominance of political power, others were fought over pre-existing class resentments, while still more struggled to stay afloat ...
Andrew G. Walder (born 1953) is an American political sociologist specializing in the study of Chinese society.He has taught at Harvard University and Stanford University, where he joined the faculty in 1997 and is the Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
Rebel groups of Red Guards marching in Shanghai, 1967. During the Cultural Revolution, a Rebel Faction (Chinese: 造反派; pinyin: Zàofǎn pài) was a group or a sociopolitical movement that was self-proclaimed "rebellious".
Mao wrote his own dazibao at Beijing University on 5 August 1966, calling on the people to "Bombard the Headquarters". [ 170 ] : 5 Xuanchuanhua , or propaganda paintings, were artworks produced by the government and sold cheaply in stores to be displayed in homes or workplaces.
Tsinghua University students burning Japanese goods Peking Normal University students detained by the government during the May Fourth Movement On the morning of May 4, 1919, student representatives from thirteen different local universities met in Beijing and drafted five resolutions:
The rebellion was initiated by a society known as the Boxers (Chinese: Righteous Harmony Society), a group which initially opposed—but later reconciled itself to—the Qing dynasty. The Boxer Rebellion was concentrated in northern China where the European powers had begun to demand territorial, rail and mining concessions.