Ex-Red Guard recalls China's Cultural Revolution
40 years later, many struggle to understand
BEIJING -- Li Qingyou vividly recalls the hot summer day 40 years ago in Tiananmen Square. He was among the 1 million members of the new cadre of radical students called Red Guards who stood at rapt attention and waved their Little Red Books as Mao Zedong exhorted them to destroy China's ``four olds" -- old ideas, old culture, old ... (Full article: 1379 words)
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