Volume 17, Number 10 · December 16, 1971
Bringing Up the Red Guards
By John Gittings
Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture
by Richard Solomon
University of California, 604 pp., $12.50
Everyone who has studied the Chinese Cultural Revolution has his own favorite quotation from the Red Guard press. Those who want to make fun of it can always pick one of Mrs. Mao's ridiculous pronouncements ('P'an T'ien-shou is a counterrevolutionary painter—he paints such miserable birds'). Those interested in 'violence' can easily find some 'urgent appeal' describing 'sanguinary atrocities' (always unverifiable) in one of the remoter provinces. Pessimists will find plenty of stern directives from the Army and the central authorities in the later stages of the revolution, denouncing the 'evil wind of anarchism.'
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