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

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

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2023

In the 1960s, the Black Panthers teamed up with the Red Guard Party to push for better living conditions in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2021

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

Occasionally he would sense a Red Guard watching and pull himself up, but for longer and longer periods his gray head was bowed.

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