ABSTRACT
BENNETT, Gordon A., and Ronald N. Montaperto. Red Guard: The Political Biography of Dai Hsiao-ai. New York: Doubleday, 1971. 267 pp.
An account of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as viewed through the biography of Dai Hsiao-ai, a Red Guard and student activist leader in the city of Canton. Told in great part in Dai's own words, this Red Guard traces his initial enthusiasm for Mao's Revolution, his trips across China to mass demonstrations in Peking, his growing role as a faction leader, and the ultimate disillu sionment that led him to leave his family and comrades behind and seek refuge in Hong Kong.
