Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the bloody Chinese “Cultural ... a red armband, symbol of the Red Guards, on the arm of the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong.

16 at 77, was a teenage face of the Cultural Revolution ... she smiled as she presented Mao with her red armband and secured it to his sleeve. One million Red Guards looked on from the square.

On this day in 1966, a group of Red Guard ... China’s Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards, consisting primarily of students and young activists, had been encouraged by Mao Zedong to challenge ...

In 1966, China’s Communist dictator Mao Zedong launched ... Branigan’s Red Memory quotes a former student who attended Experimental High School and witnessed Bian’s death: “I understand why Chairman ...

A Chinese immigrant who witnessed Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution ... On the other side were the Red Categories who were the poor, working-class, Revolutionary guards and active members of ...

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong ... During the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s Red Guards declared war against ...

One evening in 1970, a woman named Fang Zhongmou reached the end of her patience with the Cultural Revolution. She had put up with the torture and beating of her husband by adolescent Red Guards ...

Lafayette author Ying Chang Compestine understands that China’s Cultural Revolution ... is overrun with Mao propaganda and the violent youth militias known as Red Guards. Compestine believes ...