Red Scarf Girl Vocabulary

Improve or correct one's beliefs; for people who made political mistakes

Popular semiformal organization of high school and college students from red families, enforced

The student chairman of the entire school

To meet with people from other regions to exchange the experience of the Cultural Revolution

Against the Communist Revolution

Confinement without legal arrest

The common name for a pocket sized edition of Selected Quotations from the Writing of Mao

A semiformal organization of elementary students formed to imitate Red Guards

A system of classifying people by their economic situation or occupation

A member of the middle class; used to describe someone who enjoys and admires a capitalist life

The capital of China

Old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits

A person who actively fights against the Communist Party; seen as a public enemy

A small meeting intended to change someone's behavior by studying Chairman Mao

The most important family holiday in China

Information intended to promote a particular belief; ex: da-zi-bao

One who believes that each individual is more important than the group as a whole

A group of students from the city sent to the country to work with farmers

A primary-school group including almost every child as first step to membership of Communist

The establishment of the Chinese Communist government in 1949 by Chairman Mao

A member of the working class; farmer or factory worker

A child from a "black" family who is loyal to the Communist Party and rejects their family

The national army of Communist China

A gathering in a workplace, neighborhood or school to study Chairman Mao's writings

The powerful top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party which actually rules the country

A meeting within a work unit to publicly criticize someone

A central group appointed by the Communist Party to be in charge of school administration

The symbolic color of Communism

The leader of China during the Cultural Revolution

The unethical use of someone else's labor for one's own profit

A member of the Communist Party who attempts to alter Communist ideals

An insulting term for a child of a family belonging to one of the 5 black categories

A form of propaganda in the shape of large hand written posters

A punishment for political errors

The social and political upheaval that overtook China from 1966-1976

A member of a conservative party who disagreed with the Communist Party

China's ruling political party, led by Chairman Mao

An economic system with private ownership or property, free competition and business for profit

The worst enemies; landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, criminals & rightists

An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the entire community