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

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Red Guard

The theater was physically a meeting place and soup kitchen for the Red Guard and Black Panthers.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

Miles Yu began life in rural China amid the madness of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, when Red Guard zealots roamed the country trashing and killing all vestiges of tradition and capitalism in the country.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2020

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

Ms. Yang had completed almost seven out of eight volumes of the translation when Red Guard student militants confiscated the manuscript from her home in Beijing.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2016

The girl looked at Ji-yong and Ji-yun, who were still sitting on their beds, watching, and she turned to another Red Guard.

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