SOURCE: New York Times
1-13-14
tags: Cultural Revolution, Red Guards
comments powered by Disqus
1-13-14
Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death
Breaking Newstags: Cultural Revolution, Red Guards
Nearly half a century after
Bian Zhongyun was beaten, kicked, tormented and left to die, bloody and
alone, at the Beijing girls’ school where she was deputy principal, a
daughter of the Communist Party elite has offered public penance — of a
kind that instantly brought controversy — for her part in one of the most notorious killings of the Cultural Revolution.
Read entire article at New York Times
Growing numbers of aging Red Guards have declared their contrition for violence perpetrated from 1966, when Mao Zedong urged students to turn against the school and party authorities he accused of stymieing his vision of a revolutionary society cleansed of ideological laxity.
But the apology from Song Binbin, reported by The Beijing News on Monday, quickly drew attention and was featured on many Chinese news websites. Here was a daughter of a veteran revolutionary apologizing for what has been widely described as the first killing of a teacher in the decade-long Cultural Revolution....
comments powered by Disqus
News
- Josh Hawley Earns F in Early American History
- Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
- "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
- Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error
- Health Researchers Show Segregation 100 Years Ago Harmed Black Health, and Effects Continue Today
- Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half Century of Labor History
- Can America Handle a 250th Anniversary?
- New Research Shows British Industrialization Drew Ironworking Methods from Colonized and Enslaved Jamaicans
- The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field
- Untangling Fact and Fiction in the Story of a Nazi-Era Brothel