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In the People's Republic of China, Red Guards (simplified Chinese: 红卫兵; traditional Chinese: 紅衛兵; pinyin: Hóng Wèi Bīng) were a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution, between 1966 and 1976.
The Red Guard in popular culture
- In the film The Last Emperor, the Red Guard appeared near the end of the film humiliating the kind prison warden who treated Puyi nicely.
- In the film To Live Directed by Zhang Yimou, the Red Guards appear in a few scenes, showing their various types of activity.
- In Hong Kong, TVB and ATV often depicted the brutality of the Red Guards in films and television dramas. They are rarely portrayed in film and television programs produced in mainland China.
- The video game Command & Conquer: Generals misleadingly named the Chinese standard infantry unit the "Red Guard".
- The Red Guard Party (United States) were a Black Panther affiliated organization that advocated for Chinese rights in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s