A Comparison of the Revolutionary Successor Discourses of Mao Zedong, the Youth Communist League and the Old Red Guards

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 433-459
Author(s):  
Jun-ho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Red Guards

Book review: Jude Blanchette. China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong

China Report ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
Manoj Kewalramani
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press ◽  
Red Guards

Jude Blanchette. China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong (New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2019). p. 224, $27.95, ISBN-13: 978-0190605841 (Hardcover).

scholarly journals Red Guard Movement in the First Years of “Cultural Revolution” in China (1966—1967): View of Domestic and Foreign Researchers

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 346-366
Author(s):  
V. V. Bondareva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Red Guards ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The article analyzes the first years of “the cultural revolution” in China (1966—1967), characterized by high revolutionary activity of students and school youth, organized into groups of “red guards”, who were distinguished in their actions by extreme cruelty and fanaticism. From this point of view, the destructive actions of the red guards, which were of a terrorist and mass nature, highlight the main direction of their revolutionary strike, which was inflicted on the party and state apparatus of China. Mao Zedong is presented as the initiator of a mass movement of red guards who used monstrous terrorist methods to fight his opposition and all, from their point of view, not enough politically conscious elements. The hongweibing movement, considered as an instrument of Mao Zedong’s struggle with the opposition, allows to reveal in the course of research the personal qualities of a leader who, in the name of establishing his own cult, was not afraid to deliberately plunge the entire country into mass and deeply disorderly turmoil. The detailed description of Mao Zedong’s personal attitude to what is happening, based on documentary sources, reveals the deeply dictatorial and anti-democratic nature of his power, which was asserted in the first years of “the cultural revolution” with the help of the red guards movement.

The Secret Listener

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-tsung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Great Leap ◽  
Great Leap Forward ◽  
Red Guards ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

From the time she was a girl, Yuan-tsung Chen had had a literary dream, and in 1950 she embarked on a literary career, a journey filled with thrilling and dangerous adventures. She went to Beijing and got a job in the Scenario Department of the Central Film Bureau, where she found herself in a front-row seat during China’s culture wars as Mao Zedong demanded that literature and art serve the Party, while writers wanted culture to be distinguishable from propaganda. Hence she became a secret listener. Purges ensued. She narrowly escaped the Anti-Rightist Purge of 1957 by marrying Jack Chen, who, because of his connections, had avoided political trouble so far. Mao’s “class war” continued. His Great Leap Forward caused the plunge in agricultural production and the greatest famine of the twentieth century. It led to Mao’s last and most violent purge, the Cultural Revolution. His hitmen, the Red Guards, viciously attacked Jack. Yuan-tsung went secretly to ask Zhou Enlai, the prime minister, for help. Zhou tried but failed to protect them. They were sent out of Beijing and consigned to a rural backwater village, cut off from all recourse to friends. But Yuan-tsung figured out a way to get in touch, right under the noses of the Red Guards, with Jack’s American brother-in-law and asked him to arrange a speaking tour for Jack. He did, and thus Jack was able to accept an invitation to lecture on Canadian and American campuses. After a tense wait, on the prime minister’s personal order Jack and Yuan-tsung got permits to leave the country.

scholarly journals DAZIBAO: SARANA PENGGALANGAN PENGAWAL MERAH PADA ERA REVOLUSI KEBUDAYAAN TIONGKOK (1966-1969)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Tuty Nur Mutia Enoch Muas ◽  
Ervina Noviyanti
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Red Guards

Dazibao literally translated as big character poster. Since China dynasty era dazibao has functioned as a medium to deliver messages to the public, therefore it is usually posted on an open wall. The use of dazibao as a propaganda medium for Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party has been widely discussed, but in the research process, specific data were found which show that revolutionary action and the number of Red Guards increased sharply in the short period of time after the dazibao of Nie Yuanzi from Beijing University and Mao Zedong were published. These findings aroused interest to dig deeper into dazibao’s strong elements as a Red Guards mobilizing medium during the Cultural Revolution which become the main analysis of this article. Historical approach which consist of heuristic, verification, interpretation, and historiography is used to reconstruct the strength of dazibao. The analysis focuses on the two dazibao mentioned above, along with Mao Zedong's influence and socio-political development at that time as inseparable factors. The result shows that writers background, main issue, form, and diction used are elements of the strength of Nie’s dazibao and supported by Mao’s dazibao caused dazibao to have a very significant function in raising the number of Red Guards during the Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-1969.Dazibao secara harfiah dalam bahasa Indonesia berarti  poster dengan tulisan besar. Sejak era kedinastian Tiongkok telah dikenal dan digunakan sebagai sarana penyampai pesan kepada masyarakat, karena itu biasanya ditempel di dinding terbuka. Pemanfaatan dazibao sebagai sarana propaganda Mao Zedong dan Partai Komunis Tiongkok telah banyak dibahas, tapi dalam proses penelitian ditemukan data spesifik yang menunjukkan bahwa aksi revolusioner dan jumlah Pengawal Merah meningkat tajam dalam jangka waktu singkat setelah publikasi dazibao Nie Yuanzi dari Universitas Beijing dan dazibao Mao Zedong. Temuan tersebut membangkitkan ketertarikan untuk menggali lebih dalam tentang factor-faktor yang menjadi kekuatan dazibao sebagai sarana penggalangan Pengawal Merah pada Revolusi Kebudayaan tersebut. Hal itulah yang menjadi pokok bahasan artikel ini. Metode sejarah yang mencakup tahapan heuristik, verifikasi, interpretasi, dan historiografi digunakan untuk merekonstruksi kekuatan dazibao terutama yang tercermin dalam dazibao Nie dan Mao. Dalam pembahasan pengaruh Mao Zedong serta perkembangan sosial-politik saat itu menjadi bagian tak terpisahkan didalamnya.  Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa latar penulis, pokok bahasan, tampilan, dan pilihan kata/diksi merupakan faktor-faktor yang menjadi kekuatan dazibao Nie. Ditambah dengan dukungan dari dazibao yang dibuat Mao serta publikasi yang masif menyebabkan dazibao berfungsi sangat signifikan dalam penggalangan Pengawal Merah pada Revolusi Kebudayaan Tiongkok tahun 1966-1969.

Vers une « nouvelle histoire » du communisme chinois

1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-943
Author(s):  
Yves Chevrier
Keyword(s):  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Mise En Œuvre ◽  
Mao A

Dans une étude classique sans cesse rééditée depuis trente ans (Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, Harvard Univ. Press, 1951), Benjamin Schwartz attribuait la victoire du parti communiste dans la révolution chinoise et l'ascension de Mao Zedong au sein de ce Parti à la mise au point — par Mao — d'une « formule » révolutionnaire originale reposant sur la paysannerie et sur l'armée. Avec le tournant des soviets du Jiangxi (1928-1934), Mao s'était fait l'homme de la militarisation et de la ruralisation d'une stratégie jusqu'alors calquée sur le modèle urbain des révolutions européennes, modèle que l'Internationale communiste avait relayé et appliqué sans succès en Chine dans les années 1920. La mise en oeuvre de la guérilla rurale avait opposé Mao à Moscou et plus encore aux hommes de Moscou, maîtres du Comité central demeuré clandestinement à Shanghai après le désastre de 1927 : Li Lisan tout d'abord (1929-1930) puis, derrière Wang Ming et Bo Gu, les « Vingt-huit bolcheviks ». En 1933, l'installation du Comité central à Ruijin (capitale des soviets du Jiangxi) avait consacré, selon Schwartz, la victoire d'une légitimité des faits (Mao) sur la légalité (les hommes de Shanghai et de Moscou).

Aspects religieux du culte de Mao Zedong

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Michel von Kretschman
Keyword(s):  
Mao Zedong

La "fièvre" Mao Zedong

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Raphaël Jacquet
Keyword(s):  
Mao Zedong
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