China Beat Archive

 

Date of this Version

2010

Document Type

Article

Citation

March 31, 2010 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org

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Copyright 2010. Used by permission.

Abstract

A group of former Red Guards at Beijing’s Qinghua University, interviewed in spring 1971 about their recent factional struggles, laughed loudly (always a sign of uneasiness) and made their “frank confession”: yes, they had not always behaved in a spirit of proletarian comradeship, they admitted. “We used to sit on either side of the table and agree to make up our differences, but even while we shook hands we were kicking one other under the table!”.

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