Mo The Red Guard

Bo, Mo. “I Was a Teenage Red Guard.” New Internationalist Magazine, Apr. 1987, newint.org/features/1987/04/05/teenage/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2017. This website describes Mo Bo, a Red Guard, who shares his personal experiences, showing the reader the atrocities the Red Guards committed. Although the source is a magazine, it provides a different perspective into the life of a Red Guard. At the same time, while this primary source doesn’t provide straightforward information, it allows for interpretation and analysis, allowing the reader to infer the Red Guards weren’t what Chairman Mao made them out to be. This article is most likely accurate due to it being a first hand account, and it supports other information from the book China Under Communism. Mo Bo, the Red Guard, informs the reader of his life using a serious but simplistic style, allowing the reader to step in the place of Mo Bo.
Kort, Michael G. China under Communism. Brookfield, Millbrook Press, 1994.
This book, written by a renowned historian, informs the reader about Chinese Communism, discussing the importance of the Red Guards. As the book is mostly factual, the Red Guards are accurately described murdering thousands, torturing family members, and destroying paintings. While the entire source is not opinionated, a primary …show more content…
The song included within the article is a primary source as it is a song from the Cultural Revolution. Due to the fact that the song is written in complex diction, younger students may be incapable of understanding the message hidden within the song. Furthermore, because no author is provided and no organization in listed, the information found may not be completely accurate. Therefore, only the song itself, an artifact of the Cultural Revolution, should be interpreted by the reader. The song provides awareness into the arts allowed during the Cultural Revolution and the propaganda the Red Guards