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ce activity in Peking in the
past few weeks, especially
Since the 11th plenary meet-

ing of the central committee of.

the Communist Party of China,
has been unusual, .

“Red guards” have been par-
ading the streets. The Red
Guards are a new organization
set up in the course of what the
Chinese have been calling a

€teat proletarian cultural revo-
ution.” It is made up of youths
and adolescents wearing semi-
military uniforms and red bands
On their left arms.

The Red Guards have taken
Public oaths to “defend Chair-
man Mao” all their lives. _

€ demands and decisions of

the Red Guards, and other orga-

nizations participating in the
cultural revolution” are found

M posters. and notices pasted up ©

on walls throughout the city.

Especially popular is a form,

Of poster called the “tatse pao”,
a wall newspaper written in huge
characters. The posters voice the
determination of the Red Guards
to “destroy the old world” and
to “build a new one.”

The Red Guards have been
renaming streets, shops, restau-
Tants, hairdressing salons and
other institutions. The street on
bleh the Soviet Embassy is
renamed “Fight Western Revi-
Slonism Street”. Chanan Tatse,
the main thoroughfare running
through Tienanmen Square, has
already been renamed twice.

“The little pioners of the re-
volution,” as the Chinese press
has termed the Red Guards,
have been tearing down stucco
Mscriptions and decorations on
Old buildings,

As’a result of the demands of
the “revolutionary students” a
number of bookshops displaying

Political literature and _ fiction

have been closed down. The

Ocated, for example, has been

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demonstrating Chinese.

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books of other shops have been
removed.

Clean paper has been spread
on the empty shelves, which
have then been, decorated with
new collections of Mao Tse-
tung’s poems and his other
works. Portraits and photos of
Mao are displayed prominently
for sale,

A number of shops of handi-
crafts and paintings by ancient
and contemporary artists which

Hsinhua news agency reports that “revolutionary teachers and
students” in China used the occasion of the appearance of newly-
Printed collected works of Mao Tse-tung to stage a “dancing, sing-
ng demonstration” in Peking.

have attained a world renown
are located on Liulichang Street.
These have been closed as part
of the establishment of the “new
order.”

A “tatse pao” (big-lettered
wall newspaper) displayed: in the
window of a shop called Jung-
paochai explains why. “Jungpa-

‘ochai is a store of black paint-

ings,” says the poster. “It has
been turned into a den of ‘black
gang’ artists. But we shall
achieve the crash of the shame-
ful Jungpaochai.”

The Jungpaochai shop, which
has attained world fame for its
reproductions of paintings by
well-known ancient Chinese and
contemporary artists, Chi Pai-
shi and Hsui Pei-hung, now sells
only portraits of Mao Tse-tung.

The “revolutionary students”
have demanded that the produc-
tion of records with “feudal,
bourgeois and revisionist” con-
tent be stopped.

This includes foreign and Chi-
nese classical music, the works
of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,
Liszt, Chopin, Tchaikovsky,
Bartok, Shostakovich and others,
which have been systematically
‘criticized lately in the Chinese
press.

It has been suggested that

anyone who has such records

_ and other shops. Soaps, combs,

‘demanded a ban on sales of

at home would do wisely to
smash them.

The demand has been put for-
ward that chess, the internation- °
al and the Chinese variety, be
banned, since~it is a pastime
which “serves the feudal lords -
and the bourgeoisie.”

In response to demands of the
“revolutionary students”, eau de
colognes, perfumes, powders,
creams, lipsticks and other cos-
metics have been removed from
Peking’s main department store

tooth-brushes and razors are still
on display, however.

“Cosmetics,” writes one tatse
pao, “served the bourgeoisie and
the beauties.”

There are demands for the
withdrawal of children’s . toy
watches, bags and other toys
because “they cultivate bour-
geois and revisionist habits in
children.”

Fashionable hairdos, Europe-
an-style clothing and _ fancy.
women’s shoes are taboo.

The Red Guards have also

sunglasses. They have been te-
moved from the counters of the
main department store in Peking.

Neon light commercial adver-
tising, the Red Guards say, must
be replaced with quotations from
the works of Mao Tse-tung.

Transit drivers and conductors
are required to display portraits
of Mao in their buses and trol-
leys. —

The students have demanded
that special places be reserved
in all city parks where Mao Tse-
tung’s works-may be read.

In recent days, large demon-
strations of “revolutionary stu-
dents” opposing “revisionism”
have taken place in front of the
Soviet embassy in Peking.

. Chinese newspapers and other
authorities are encouraging and
supporting the organizations of
“revolutionary students”, the
“Red Guards” and militant “Red
Banner” groups. ~ ;

The actions of these groups
are described as “revolutionary”
and_ “legitimate”. Those oppos-
ing the’ revolutionary actions of
the students “betray Mao’s
teaching. and drift away from
the party’s central committee,”
newspaper editorials have stated.

Workers, soldiers and peas- -
ants are called on to “side firmly
with the revolutionary students,
and give the revolutionary ac-
tions of the revolutionary stu-
dents most vigorous and resolute
support.”

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In response to an appeal from
Premier Chou En-lai, the experi-
ence of “revolutionary students”
in Peking is being studied by
young people from many parts
of the country.

September 16, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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