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EX-RED GUARD RECALLS CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION
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BEIJING Li Qingyou vividly recalls the hot summer day 40 years ago
in Tiananmen Square. He was among the 1 million members of the new
cadre of radical students called Red Guards who stood at rapt
attention and waved their Little Red Books as Mao Zedong exhorted
them to destroy China's "four olds" old ideas, old culture, old
customs, and old habits.
The historic mass rally was the first launched under the Cultural
Revolution, Mao's effort to rid the country of its feudal past and
create...
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The China Journal
; THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AT THE GRASS ROOTS Jonathan Unger* The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, edited by Joseph Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz and Andrew G. Walder. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. x + 382 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). Because of the headlong rush
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CULTURAL REVOLUTION, WITH ITS "RE-EDUCATION," SCARRED PSYCHE OF CHINESE.(EDITORIAL)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; ... well-being of the ultimate community, the nation. And China - more than 20 years after the Cultural Revolution sputtered out - is still nursing its wounded psyche. Rosemary Roberts is a News & Record columnist. This is the second column about China.
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MAKING SENSE OF THE `GREAT DISORDER' OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Boston Globe
; There is a play on words popular among Beijing intellectuals that transposes the characters for "cultural revolution" "wenhua da geming" to create a satiric expression, "da ge wenhua ming," which translates loosely as "the revolution that destroyed the life of culture." As a campaign against the
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'Mao was the best emperor of all time' - why does Beijing still fear the Cultural Revolution?
Newsweek
; THE 1,200 VILLAGERS OF GUSHUICUN live in the cradle of Chinese civilization. Yet they seem to have lost their historical perspective. On a sacred hill in northern Shaanxi province, near Taoist shrines and a traditional fertility hall, they have built a temple to Mao Zedong. It draws a steady stream
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China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
The China Journal
; China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives, edited by Woei Lien Chong. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xix + 410 pp. US$80.00 (hardcover), US$34.95 (paperback). This volume explores the tension created by the Communist Party's 1991
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Secrets of the Past.(historian Song Yonghi persecuted for research on China's Cultural Revolution)
Newsweek International
; A seven-inch scar, hidden by a black toupee, explains Song Yongyi's lifelong obsession. For 30 years, the Chinese historian has been struggling to exorcise the painful memories of the Cultural Revolution, the decade of mass madness and factional fighting launched by Mao Zedong's Red Guards. Song
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A Chinese-American woman's plight during the Cultural Revolution (1).
Chinese America: History and Perspectives
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Red-Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution
The China Journal
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1966 China's cultural revolution: seventeen years after the Communist takeover, Mao Zedong launched another revolution that led to the deaths of thousands of people and the persecution of millions more.(TIMES PAST)
New York Times Upfront
; By the afternoon of May 25, 1966, a group of radical professors at Peking University had finally finished drafting a large political poster. They took it to a campus commons area, hung it outside, and waited for a reaction. It would not take long. The poster was a blistering attack against
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