Word: tsinghua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green light for reforming the Red Guards. Mao dispatched "worker-peasant, Mao Tse-tung-thought propaganda teams" to rebellious college campuses in Peking, Shanghai and Canton, which have been dominated by Red Guards. To dramatize the move, Mao sent a shipment of mangoes to the workers on Tsinghua University campus in Peking, where they were solemnly sniffed and touched, one commentary reverently reported, then preserved chemically as a "token of Chairman Mao's great attention to the working class." The gift was celebrated at campus rallies all over the country...
Ghostly Organizer. The reincarnation of the Guards in their present form came in mid-June. A pilot group was organized at Tsinghua University's middle school in Peking. The organizer and initial commander of the Guards was Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, and he loosed his youthful minions in public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms...