Red Guards in Life and Death in Shanghai

The Cultural Revolution was started in October 1966. After the failures of previous political campaigns such as The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution was created from the struggle of power between the Maoists and the opposing power from Liu Shao-chi and Deng Hsiao-ping. Encouraged by Mao and his wife Chiang Ching, young people and students were used as a political tool as they were most effect to Mao¡¦s question, "How can I make the Cultural Revolution spread everywhere in China?" The Red Guard Army was established to pursue the Revolution to the ¡§far corners of China¡¨. Schools were closed at that time and rather than learning, the ¡§Young Revolutionaries Generals¡¨ had traveled throughout China to reinforce Mao¡¦s thinking. To promote Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards did not only used slogans, posters, and speeches, from Mao, but also violent actions to every element that potentially opposed Mao¡¦s thinking such as the ¡§Four Olds¡¨ ¡V the old cultu...