red guard
See also: Red Guard
English
Etymology
red + guard
Noun
red guard (plural red guards)
- A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.
- What on Earth could be next, the Chinese red guard-style maltreatment of language learners and yodelers?
- 2011, Kissinger, Henry, On China, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2011009265, OCLC 1025648355, page 194:
- In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) hongweibing
Translations
Red Guards (China)
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