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

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

Before retiring, Mr. Chen was an instructor at the prestigious Tsinghua University High School, the birthplace of the first Red Guard group.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2016

I asked some Red Guard comrades in the train to reach their arms out to me and help me to climb in the window.

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