The Red Guards' Path to Violence: Political, Educational, and Psychological Factors

by Jing Lin

A philosophical analysis informed by history, this work examines the reasons for the highly destructive behavior of the Red Guards in the early part of China's Cultural Revolution. By probing the political, educational, and psychological factors influencing the Red Guards, Jing Lin sheds light on how teenagers and young adults were able to justify violence in the name of class struggle and human rights. She concludes that non-critical, categorical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275938727
• ISBN13: 9780275938727
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.8"