Word: xueliang
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...home region in southeast China, Xueliang organized a team of 13 students to walk throughout remote areas of the mainland to convey the slogans and politics of Mao. During the winter, the group trudged through deep snow and refused rides offered by passing military truck to show sacrifice for their cause, Xueliang said...
...Xueliang took part in a three-day demonstration attended by nearly 30,000 students to force the provincial governor of Hofei to confess corruption...
Armed violence increased among Guard members asthe Cultural Revolution progressed, and the youthstole weapons from the state army, Xueliang said,adding that when he was caught taking threehandguns from an army unit, the soldiers gave himone gun "for encouragement...
...Xueliang and other leaders of the Red Guardwere then forced to attend "study groups," aeuphemism for police interrogation sessions...
...came to realize that lofty aspirations areone thing, but political processes are another,"Xueliang said. "The fundamental lesson of theCultural Revolution, found by myself and too manyothers, was that corruption, bureaucracy,lawlessness, and injustice didn't disappear fromChinese life; instead, they became stronger. Thepurpose of the Cultural Revolution stood oppositeto its consequences...