hungweiping

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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

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of hongweibing.

    In the autumn of 1966, when the hungweiping crusades were at their height, there were increasing calls from the Peking leaders to keep the border areas "in fighting trim".

    1978, Vladimir Olgin, “For many years the Soviet-Chinese frontier was a frontier of true friendship between the two peoples. When and why did frontier relations between the PRC and the USSR deteriorate?”, in On the Soviet-Chinese Border: The Soviet Viewpoint: Questions and Answers, Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 29–30
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    Today many hungweiping detachments have escaped this control and millions of young people have become aware of the criminal character of the “cultural revolution” and the reactionary nature of Mao Tse-tung’s “thought.”

    1969, Wang Ming, “Cultural Revolution or Counter-revolutionary Coup?”, in Information Bulletin, volume 7, World Marxist Review Publishers, →OCLC, page 47

    In China, the hungweiping and the tsaofan, used by the army officers backing Mao Tse-tung to smash the Party leadership and all workers’ organisations, have much in common with the student and youth bands that were formed and employed by Indonesian army commanders and bourgeoisie prior to the Chinese “cultural revolution” to smash the Communist Party and other anti-imperialist forces.

    1971, “Socialism and National Liberation Revolutions”, in Jim Riordan, transl., edited by Yuri Sdobnikov, Socialism and capitalism: score and prospects, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →OCLC, page 235

    Peking loudly announced that the “cultural revolution” which was in progress in China should be extended to the whole world. Hungweiping publications earnestly put forward the task of remaking the universe with the aid of the ideas of the "great helmsman", of staging a great revolutionary spectacle not only on the home scene but on the international scene as well.

    Б. Т. Колосков

    1975, O. B. Borisov [Олег Борисович Борисов], B. T. Koloskov [Б. Т. Колосков], “Sino-Soviet Relations in the Latter Half of the 60s”, in Sino-Soviet Relations 1945-1973: A Brief Story, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →OCLC, page 296

Origin

  1. Mandarin紅衛兵 /红卫兵
  2. Englishhungweiping

From Mandarin 紅衛兵 /红卫兵 (hóngwèibīng), Wade–Giles romanization: hung²-wei⁴-ping¹.

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