Red Guards on the March (2024)

A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia

TJ Cheng et al.

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2023

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9780226826851

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9780226826844

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Cheng, Tj, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden, 'Red Guards on the March', A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia (Chicago, IL, 2023; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826851.003.0005, accessed 30 May 2024.

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Cheng, Tj, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden. "Red Guards on the March." In A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia University of Chicago Press, 2023. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826851.003.0005.

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The Red Guard movement launched on August 18 created a new paramilitary organization at Mao’s call: “to rebel is justified.” Within days Red Guard organizations mushroomed nationwide. In Hohhot, young people, myself included, joined the ranks as rebels, challenging corrupt officials even as loyalist work teams supported the existing power structure. I was soon drawn to dachuanlian or a great liaison allowing millions of youths to travel free nationwide to lend support to warring factions within the Party leadership. This took me first to Lanzhou, then to Xi’an, Chongqing, and Guilin in the far south before returning to Hohhot via Beijing for Mao’s inspection of another mass rally at Tiananmen. Three Red Guard Headquarters emerged in Hohhot, all claiming to represent Mao. With Mao calling for rebellion, however, the Third Headquarters (Husansi) led by Gao Shuhua gained prominence, winning the support of Gao Jinming, who had become the leading figure in the Inner Mongolia Party Committee, and providing aid to rebel worker and student groups. Having worked as office manager for Jinggangshan, the rebel organization at Teachers College, I went on a Long March with fellow students to see more of the country and gauge the progress of the revolution.

Keywords: Red Guards, rebels, great liaison, Gao Jinming

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Asian History

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