Fight and criticism session
Fight and criticism sessions ( Chinese 批鬥 會 / 批斗 会 , Pinyin Pī Dòu Huì ) were public mass rallies during the times of China's Cultural Revolution , in which the accused victims were humiliated and tortured until they confessed their guilt and self- criticized. Often the accused are academics who spread reactionary ideas in the eyes of the Red Guards .
An example of such a public interrogation event is described in Mao's Little General . Wáng Guāngměi , the wife of the then Chinese President Liú Shàoqí , was humiliated, insulted, insulted, accused of crimes, forced to change publicly in front of the crowd and despite the cold after her capture at the end of December 1966 in front of 100,000 members of the Red Guards in Beijing Put on a “shiny silk dress” and high-heeled shoes. The description of this event makes up a whole chapter in the book of Mao's Little General.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Neaman Lipman, Stevan Harrell: Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture . SUNY Press, 1990, pp. 154-157 .
- ↑ Ken Ling, Miriam London, Li Ta-ling: Mao's Little General. The story of the Red Guard Ken Ling . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-01024-X , chapter “Wang Kung-mei is caught in the net”, pp. 258–280