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Song Binbin
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Song Binbin (also known as Yaowu) [Also known as Yan Song at MIT] (born in 1949) was a senior leader in the Chinese Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution when she gained notoriety after leading a student revolt resulting in the killing of Bian Zhongyun, the first teacher killed during the Revolution, which resulted in recognition from Mao Zedong. Binbin [Binbin? We are calling her by her given name?] has since renounced and apologized for her actions.
Binbin [Binbin agin-gin! Very unusual.] was born in 1949[1] the "daughter of Song Renqiong, one of China’s founding leaders known as the Eight Immortals, [Awkward phrasing. Bet this person is Chinese.] was in 1966 a senior leader among the leftist Red Guards at her girls’ school in Beijing. The Red Guard [Red Guards, Red Guards, plural, not Red Guard.] worked to overthrow China’s institutional frameworks to demonstrate their devotion to Mao."[2] Bibin [Mis-spelled, like Ye Weili's "Bing" Zhongyun.] led a rebellion at Experimental High School [It is called that now. It was not called that then. I guarantee this was written by a Chinese person. Chinese drop the article, here "the" before "Experimental High School."] which was attached to Beijing Normal University, in Beijing, China. [Really, "in Beijing," which the author(s) have in the first sentence in this paragraph, is sufficient identification of the locale, no? Is there any need for "in Beijing, China" here? No.]She took part in beating the principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death in August 1966 with a wooden stick.[3] [Who says that? The article cited here doesn't say that! Here is what it says:"...Song, 19 at the time, was presumably present when the female students at her school, which was part of the Beijing Teachers University, killed their teacher, Bian Zhongyun. The girls brutally beat the 50-year-old woman to death using wooden sticks spiked with nails." That is not what anyone says that I am aware of.] Bian was the first teacher killed in the Cultural Revolution, and her slaying led to further killings by the Red Guards, and eventually over one million of the Guards gathered in Tiananmen Square, where Binbin famously pinned a red band on Mao Zedong's arm. The scene was captured in a famous photograph. "After the Cultural Revolution, Ms. Song [See? In quoting from an English-language source, it's "Ms. Song," in this Wikipedia entry it's all "Binbin." It is strange that the author(s) of an "authoritative" biographical entry use the subject's given name. It would be like somebody writing a Wikipedia entry on Benjamin Harris using my first name "Idiot Blogger." Also--And I could be wrong here!--it is my understanding that Chinese do not use given names as casually as do Americans and English. The given name (my understanding) is reserved for the intimacy of family or extremely close friends, "Mon cherie, Educated and Gentle, smooch, smooch, smooch"...Oh my God, I just had a wave of nausea come over me...This entry was clearly not written by an extremely close friend, unless it was the forensically dyslexic Feng Jinglang. I will bet you $100 this was written by a Chinese personage, though: the "Binbin," the "Bibin" mis-spelling, the awkward language, the citation blooper, all, to my mind, give it away. "Chinese do not argue well." ] went to the United States to study and completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She worked for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection...In 2003, she moved back to China."[4] She has since apologized for her actions during the Cultural Revolution.[5]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death By CHRIS BUCKLEY, New York Times, http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/bowed-and-remorseful-former-red-guard-recalls-teachers-death/
Jump up ^ "Ex-Red Guard Offers Fresh Cultural Revolution Apology," January 13, 2013, Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/01/13/fresh-cultural-revolution-apology/
Jump up ^ The Chinese Cultural Revolution; Remembering Mao's Victims 05/15/2007 Spiegel
Jump up ^ Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death By CHRIS BUCKLEY, New York Times, http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/bowed-and-remorseful-former-red-guard-recalls-teachers-death/
Jump up ^ "Ex-Red Guard Offers Fresh Cultural Revolution Apology," January 13, 2013, Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/01/13/fresh-cultural-revolution-apology/
Song Binbin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Song Binbin (also known as Yaowu) [Also known as Yan Song at MIT] (born in 1949) was a senior leader in the Chinese Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution when she gained notoriety after leading a student revolt resulting in the killing of Bian Zhongyun, the first teacher killed during the Revolution, which resulted in recognition from Mao Zedong. Binbin [Binbin? We are calling her by her given name?] has since renounced and apologized for her actions.
Binbin [Binbin agin-gin! Very unusual.] was born in 1949[1] the "daughter of Song Renqiong, one of China’s founding leaders known as the Eight Immortals, [Awkward phrasing. Bet this person is Chinese.] was in 1966 a senior leader among the leftist Red Guards at her girls’ school in Beijing. The Red Guard [Red Guards, Red Guards, plural, not Red Guard.] worked to overthrow China’s institutional frameworks to demonstrate their devotion to Mao."[2] Bibin [Mis-spelled, like Ye Weili's "Bing" Zhongyun.] led a rebellion at Experimental High School [It is called that now. It was not called that then. I guarantee this was written by a Chinese person. Chinese drop the article, here "the" before "Experimental High School."] which was attached to Beijing Normal University, in Beijing, China. [Really, "in Beijing," which the author(s) have in the first sentence in this paragraph, is sufficient identification of the locale, no? Is there any need for "in Beijing, China" here? No.]She took part in beating the principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death in August 1966 with a wooden stick.[3] [Who says that? The article cited here doesn't say that! Here is what it says:"...Song, 19 at the time, was presumably present when the female students at her school, which was part of the Beijing Teachers University, killed their teacher, Bian Zhongyun. The girls brutally beat the 50-year-old woman to death using wooden sticks spiked with nails." That is not what anyone says that I am aware of.] Bian was the first teacher killed in the Cultural Revolution, and her slaying led to further killings by the Red Guards, and eventually over one million of the Guards gathered in Tiananmen Square, where Binbin famously pinned a red band on Mao Zedong's arm. The scene was captured in a famous photograph. "After the Cultural Revolution, Ms. Song [See? In quoting from an English-language source, it's "Ms. Song," in this Wikipedia entry it's all "Binbin." It is strange that the author(s) of an "authoritative" biographical entry use the subject's given name. It would be like somebody writing a Wikipedia entry on Benjamin Harris using my first name "Idiot Blogger." Also--And I could be wrong here!--it is my understanding that Chinese do not use given names as casually as do Americans and English. The given name (my understanding) is reserved for the intimacy of family or extremely close friends, "Mon cherie, Educated and Gentle, smooch, smooch, smooch"...Oh my God, I just had a wave of nausea come over me...This entry was clearly not written by an extremely close friend, unless it was the forensically dyslexic Feng Jinglang. I will bet you $100 this was written by a Chinese personage, though: the "Binbin," the "Bibin" mis-spelling, the awkward language, the citation blooper, all, to my mind, give it away. "Chinese do not argue well." ] went to the United States to study and completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She worked for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection...In 2003, she moved back to China."[4] She has since apologized for her actions during the Cultural Revolution.[5]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death By CHRIS BUCKLEY, New York Times, http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/bowed-and-remorseful-former-red-guard-recalls-teachers-death/
Jump up ^ "Ex-Red Guard Offers Fresh Cultural Revolution Apology," January 13, 2013, Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/01/13/fresh-cultural-revolution-apology/
Jump up ^ The Chinese Cultural Revolution; Remembering Mao's Victims 05/15/2007 Spiegel
Jump up ^ Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death By CHRIS BUCKLEY, New York Times, http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/bowed-and-remorseful-former-red-guard-recalls-teachers-death/
Jump up ^ "Ex-Red Guard Offers Fresh Cultural Revolution Apology," January 13, 2013, Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/01/13/fresh-cultural-revolution-apology/
