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noun
- a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
noun
- a member of a Chinese youth movement that attempted to effect the Cultural Revolution (1965–71)
Loosely organized bands of militant communists who followed Mao Zedong in attacking conservative or bourgeois elements in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.