Word: xueliang
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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Twenty years ago, as a 13-year-old student revolutionary, Xueliang Ding proclaimed the tenets of Mao Tsetung to youth rallies in China. Now, as a section leader, he will relate the events of China's Cultural Revolution to Harvard students...
...Xueliang, who joined the Red Guard in 1966, is a teaching fellow for two Core courses--Foreign Cultures 26, "Industrial East Asia," this fall and Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," this spring...
...Guard, the youth corps of Mao's mid-1960s purge against revisionism in the Communist Party, Xueliang led a cadre of Communist youth in marches and rallies around China and worked his way up the ranks of the group's propaganda wing until its decline...
After being sent to a farm and a factory as part of the government's attempts to induct youth into mainstream Chinese life, Xueliang began his studies in philosophy and sociology in China and in 1984 came to study at Harvard...
...Xueliang entered the Red Guard after two years of junior high school in 1966. "I had no experience with political activities; but at that time we were convinced by Communist party propaganda that the Cultural Revolution would determine the fate of the party, the nation, the people, and everything we respected and valued," he explained...