ABSTRACT
The majority of the schools chosen were among Guangzhou's best before the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) and/or were most prominent during the GPCR as well. Only two schools in Guangzhou have been designated "true elite," and both will be treated in some detail. As Guangzhou's best middle school, containing a high proportion of both students of cadre origin and intellectual origin, and boasting the highest university promotion rate of any school in the city, it is not surprising that Huafu should have reacted to the GPCR earliest among Guangzhou's middle schools. Tao Zhu had spoken at Guangzhou's Zhongshan Memorial Hall at the end of May on how to mobilize for the Cultural Revolution. Guangya superficially shared many traits with Huafu. Some of the characteristics of Guangya's student body and its promotion system and the consequences of these characteristics on GPCR factionalism.
