ABSTRACT
After Zhou Enlai's visit to Guangzhou in mid-April 1967, few important changes occurred in the overall Rebel-Conservative configuration. Nor were the radicals willing to accept Zhou Enlai's admonition to forego any further attmepts at rehabilitation work: In the early stage of the great cultural revolution movement in Guangzhou, the revolutionary masses of many factories, enterprises, schools and literary and art departments were branded as "counterrevolutionary." In carrying out these important responsibilities, Zhou argued, the Rebels should solve the differences that had divided them into subfactional units. The remainder of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR)– except for one last effort by the Central Cultural Revolution Group to push the movement leftward – witnessed a steady decline in the fortunes of the Rebels. The split between moderates and radicals in the Flag faction dominated Guangzhou's GPCR politics between January and March 1968, with the dispute almost immediately drawing the attention of all the competing elements in Guangzhou's political struggle.
