hung wei ping

A form of hongweibing — A red guard, a member of a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of hongweibing.

    Still, the real victims of the hung wei ping are ultimately bound to be the hung wei ping themselves.

    1967, Jacques Marcuse, “Conclusion Inconclusive: A Postscript”, in The Peking Papers, Arthur Barker Limited, published 1968, →OCLC, page 344; republished as “The Red Guards Condemned”, in Colin Mackerras, editor, Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China, Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149
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