ABSTRACT
In July 1968, Beijing ordered the military in Zhejiang to crack down on disorder. On and 24 July the central authorities issued two notices to quell disturbances in the Guangxi Autonomous Region and Shaanxi province respectively. The show of force by the military in southern Zhejiang was backed up by a series of trials which began in August 1968. The relative standing of the two rebel mass organizations in Zhejiang was reflected in the choice of personnel to attend the Beijing celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the PRC. In the assessment of the relative contributions of the two organizations to the Cultural Revolution in Zhejiang, speakers made it very clear that Red Storm’s mistakes and the “tortuous road” it had followed since 1967 relegated it to second position. The Cultural Revolution had traversed a bumpy road in Zhejiang. By mid-1969 the central authorities may have stabilized the province but they had achieved it at a tremendous cost.
