The Red Guard Generation’s Battle Over Memory
This year marks 50 years since Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, the mass political...
Red Guards
Chaos of Cultural Revolution Echoes 50 Years Later
This May marks the 50th anniversary of the start of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural...
Red Guard Reunion
April Rabkin at Slate shares her experience of traveling to Yutian, east of Beijing, for the...
Red Guards Apologize, Reopening A Dark Chapter
NPR reports on recent public apologies by former Red Guards for violence, including murder,...
Drawing the News: Apology Not Accepted
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past week. Click any image to launch the slideshow...
Restaurants Serve Cultural Revolution Nostalgia
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which...
My Grandfather the Red Guard
Shawn Lei at Tea Leaf Nation shares his grandfather’s memories of the Cultural Revolution: There were carrots as well as sticks; those who joined the campaign could get gong fen, points which translated into food coupons....
Former Red Guard Atones For Past
A 61-year-old man from Shandong Province, Liu Boqin, paid a magazine to publish a letter expressing remorse over violent acts he committed during the Cultural Revolution as a teen. According to Chang Meng of The Global Times,...
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”
In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics. SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in...
Ping Fu Defends Memoir After Chinese Netizens Attack
Ping Fu, CEO of 3D software developer Geomagic and innovation adviser to President Obama, released her English-language memoir Bend, Not Break on December 31. The book traces her journey from oppressed youth during China’s...
Contemporary Chinese Art: Young and Restless
At The Economist’s Analects blog, Alec Ash discusses ON / OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice. The exhibition at Beijing’s Ullens Center includes the Foxconn-focused Consumption by Li Liao, who was...
Drawing the News: So Long, Sparta
The new Politburo Standing Committee has been elected, Xi Jinping has taken the helm–now all that remains of the 18th Party Congress are lingering inconveniences for Beijingers, and memories. Artist: unknown Source:...
No More Politics, Get Back to Studying
In the aftermath of the Shifang protests, Party mouthpiece Global Times published an editorial on...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Tiananmen at Twenty
From the Nation: In April and May of 1989, people around the world were inspired by the protests in Tiananmen Square, then horrified when the June 4 massacre turned Beijing streets into urban killing fields. China has changed...
Liu Jin: A Personal History of the Beginning of the Red Guards
Anton Lee Wishik II translated an article from the latest Yanhuang Chunqiu (炎黄春秋）magazine, posted on translator’s mei-zhong blog: The Red Guards first originated at the affiliated middle school of Beijing Qinghua...
On Mao’s 114th Birthday, Past Catches Up to Former Red Guard Leader – Xujun Eberlein
From The New America Media: A long forgotten photo of a young woman strapping a Red Guard arm band on the communist leader has resurfaced on the Internet and brought new infamy to Song Binbin, now a scientist living in the United States. [Full Text]
Red Guards in the Arts – Tian Taiquan and Zhang Dazhong
Wudou (Ê≠¶Êñó), or Armed Struggle, was the most destructive episode of the Cultural Revolution. Hundreds of thousands young Red Guards and ordinary people died in factional armed struggles across the country. In Chongqing, there is a public cemetery devoted to more than four hundred Red Guards from one faction who died during violent events between […]
Video: The First Casualty of Cultural Revolution – Letters from China
From Letters from China: Just before the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival, the Organising Committee suddenly issued a notice on 26 March saying the film festival was ordered to suspend and the committee was still...
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