An important factor in the Cultural Revolution, particularly from 1966 to 1968, the Red Guards were groups formed from junior and senior high school students and university students, who made it their cause to be the personal guards of Mao Zedong...

Red Guards refer to socialist or communist militia formed to instigate, support, or defend communist revolutions. Historically, they have consisted of armed workers as well as defectors, mutineers or decommissioned soldiers from the state's...

Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard, by Fan Shen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xiv + 279 pp. US$24.95 (hardcover). Memoirs by former Red Guards have been appearing in the West since the early 1970s, when volumes by "Ken Ling"...

A British memorial to the dead of two world wars will soon be guarded by the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA). The army which left an indelible mark on the history of the 20th-century with the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, is likely...

Bo Yibo, the last of the "Eight Immortals" who led China through economic reforms and the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died, an official news agency reported Tuesday. He was 98.Bo's death was announced in a one-sentence dispatch by the Xinhua News Agency. It gave...

After tripling over the past 15 years, the number of foreign children adopted by Americans dropped sharply in 2006, the result of multiple factors which have jolted adoption advocates and prompted many would-be adoptive parents to reconsider their options.The consequences could be profound for the...