Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton)

Download or read book Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton) written by Stanley Rosen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) of the middle and late 1960s burst forth, the initial response both in China and the West seemed primarily to be one of mystification. The spectacle of severe splits among leaders long thought to be compatible, of armed struggles between factional units whose uniform pledges to Chairman Mao and the Party Center appeared to make their similarities greater than their differences, and of destructive Red Guards who were bent on "tearing down the old world to build a new one" was at first difficult to explain.