Talk:Red Guards

message: What was the Chinese pronunsiation of the term? Kind of "hoon wei bin"? Please add to the article. Mikkalai 20:45, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese pronunciation

message: Please provide a romanization of the term. mikka (t) 20:55, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: How to pronounce

message: I'm a native Chinese speaker, and this phrase translates literally into "Don't love father, don't love mother, only love the country." So either the Chinese words are incorrect, or the translation is. Can someone double-check and edit? LullabyLoves 22:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 不愛爸爸，不愛媽媽，只愛國家

message: The following, among other things in this section, is quite absurd:
:Authoritarian pro-capitalist Chinese critics of Mao say that Mao was aware of the increasing ideological differentiation and the petty struggles occurring in the air of the "si da," the four big freedoms, so he should have shut down the Red Guards and the entire Cultural Revolution earlier. Oddly, this suited Western liberals who objected to keeping China off the capitalist road.
If there are specific "authoritarian pro-capitalist Chinese critics of Mao," "Western liberals," etc., that you have in mind, how about we have their names, rather than a polemical and POV description that reads like it was copied out of MIM Notes or Rénmín Rìbào? Radgeek 17:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: This is a very poor article which needs to be completely rewritten. (Why is it every time I visit an article to do with any aspect of communist history I find the some grossly tendentious rubbish?) Adam 11:46, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This article

message: I doubt I need to elaborate on how that is an extremely POV-laden comment. Needs to be changed, definitely. -- 我♥中國 07:07, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "barbarism of red guard"? 

message: Looking back over the history of this article, it has continously suffered from unexplained, wholesale deletions of material by unregistered users. I'm going to recommend it for partial page protection.Sylvain1972 18:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Protection for this article

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Little red book.jpg

message: I have added significant information to this article.  This is a very sensitive topic to write on, so if you have any comments on my additions please discuss them here. MarquisCostello (talk) 17:42, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing is sensitive anymore since the Cultural revolution happened 30-40 years ago, and the official verdict by the communists themselves was  十年浩劫 translate:Ten years of great disaster. And we all know that the red guards were just a bunch a mobs used by Mao to attack his political rivals. Arilang   talk 00:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: While I agree that the Red Guard movement is no longer "sensitive", I find the claim that "we all know" (!) that "the Red Guards were just a bunch a mobs [sic]" to be rather off the mark, and indicative of ignorance rather than genuine historical knowledge. The Red Guards were, like many other events and participants in the history of the PRC, surely 70%/30% good/bad.Villa Giulia (talk) 16:28, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: New information added

message: Nie Yuanzi was not one of the "group of students" but a middle-aged party secretary in the departmet of philosophy at Peking University. Her name does not belong in the sentence where it occurs, and hence I deleted it.Villa Giulia (talk) 20:27, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nie Yuanzi 

message: The red guards weren't moblized by him at all. They were just simpily very strong folowers of his idology and thought that they were doing their duty. Think of it as Rastafarians and Haile Selassie, the latter did not want to be worshipped just like Mao Zedong did not order the red guards to destroy religious objects and political dissidents.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.77.1 (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mobilized by Mao Zedong 

message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrUHVFkm9A
Culture Revolution - Public execution & Impact, things that Red Guards did.  Arilang   talk 07:09, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Real images of Red Guards

message: Removed the sentences about firing squads and "chinese roulette" because 1. the first sentence about firing squads is not supported by the citation 2. the citation for "chinese roulette" refers to a novelist who "apparently" experienced it - surely there can be more reliable information about this? 3. the source is not about China let alone the Red Guards and is not widely available. Not only that but it doesn't cite it's claims. 195.195.176.1 (talk) 15:58, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "Chinese roulette"

message: Where is the overall death toll of the Red Guard movement, and why is it not here?  I recall it being something like 70 million deaths.  Please amend.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.117.208 (talk) 05:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Toll? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Red Guard (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 22:44, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: "One of these very people, Rae Yang, described how these actions inspired students. Through authority figures, such as teachers, using their positions as a form of absolute command rather than as educators, gave students a reason to believe Red Guard messages." Should this all be one sentence, or can we remove "Through" and just open the second sentence with "Authority figures"? I don't have the source attached in the article so I can't say what was intended here. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 15:56, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous grammar here 

message: The first picture should be of Red Guards, not of Little Red Guards, as shown by the characters "红小兵" on their armbands. Ctxz2323 (talk) 09:50, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Picture changed. --SCreditC (talk) 18:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong picture of the Red Guards