Red Guard

American  

noun

1. a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.

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Red Guard British  

noun

1. a member of a Chinese youth movement that attempted to effect the Cultural Revolution (1965–71)

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Etymology

Origin of Red Guard

1965–70; translation of Chinese hóng wèibīng

Example Sentences

Closely monitoring the event are a pair of Storm Troopers, the ruthless infantry soldiers of the Empire along with a member of the dreaded Red Guard, Emperor Palpatine’s personal security detail.

From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2021

Another post from 2017, “Girls Studying Abroad—Please Stay Away from These Foreign Man-Dregs,” was illustrated with several photographs of a white man in a Maoist Red Guard uniform.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

The scene is the one in which the newly conscripted Handmaids are being brainwashed in a sort of Red Guard re-education facility known as the Red Center.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2017

Former Red Guard blogs horror In 1966, 13-year-old Yu Xiangzhen was a “little general” of Mao Zedong – one of thousands of teenagers recruited to promote his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2016

Jia Hong-yu, our district’s most famous Red Guard leader, had returned from Beijing and would give her report at a neighborhood meeting.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang