This is CBS I In The World, I'm John Batch.

The Red Guards, the Culture Revolution, beginning Red August, 1966, according to the history

books.

What does it mean here in the 21st century?

Gordon Chang, I've Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host, to help me understand what I'm

learning about the Red Guards.

They're always with us, of course, it's part of China's history, but it is an important

part of the China history that's being hidden from the Chinese people.

That's right.

In the Big Museum in Beijing, I'm told where the Xi Jinping, when he took power, made a

big to-do of the Chinese history, or as one Wagg said, in China, history is religion.

I'm told that the Red Guards, the Culture Revolution, has a dingy little corner, and just

a couple of photographs with no explanation of what dominated the conversation and the

lives of people who are now in their 60s and 70s.

One of whom is Xi Jinping, the three-time elected general secretary of the Chinese Communist

Party.

Another of whom is Bo Shi-lai, now in prison indefinitely, for what are presumed to

be a corruption or abuse of the state and perhaps murder by his wife.

But Gordon, I come to you because Bo and Xi, they both remember being victims of the

Red Guard, the Culture Revolution, at the same time they participated as educated youth

to the countryside.

This is their teenage years, and those memories these years later.

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