Title The Red Guard generation and political activism in China / Guobin Yang.

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New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

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Description	1 online resource : illustrations.
	text file
Series	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Violence in Chongqing -- Flowers of the nation -- Theory and dissent -- Ordinary life -- Underground culture -- New enlightenment -- Factionalized memories.
Summary	Raised to be #x93;flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and ambitions. Its members embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966 but soon split into warring factions. Guobin Yang investigates the causes of this fracture and argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Th.
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Language	In English.
Subject	Hong wei bing -- History -- 20th century.
	Hong wei bing.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Hong wei bing -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Chongqing (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Political activists -- China -- Chongqing -- Interviews.
	Political activists.
	China -- Chongqing.
Genre/Form	Interviews.
Subject	Social movements -- China -- Chongqing -- History -- 20th century.
	Social movements.
	Youth -- Political activity -- China -- Chongqing -- History -- 20th century.
	Youth -- Political activity.
	Political violence -- China -- Chongqing -- History -- 20th century.
	Political violence.
	Interviews -- China -- Chongqing.
	Interviews.
	Urban-rural migration -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
	Urban-rural migration.
	China.
	China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Social movements.
	Youth.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Interviews.
ISBN	0231520484 (electronic book)
	9780231520485 (electronic book)
	0231149646
	9780231149648
	9780231149648
Standard No.	10.7312/yang14964

Title The Red Guard generation and political activism in China / Guobin Yang.

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