Song Binbin, who died Sept. 16 at 77, was a teenage face of the Cultural Revolution, the bloody decade-long campaign in which Chinese leader Mao Zedong persecuted perceived enemies of the ...

Song Binbin, who has died ... on the arm of the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. Two weeks earlier she had taken part in the murder of Bian Zhongyun, deputy principal of the Beijing high school ...

Song Binbin was the face of Cultural Revolution turmoil, the Red Guard who helped spark the deadly persecution of teachers ...

“She and the others were supported by Mao Zedong. Mao was the source of all evil. He did so much that was bad.” Song Binbin was born in 1947, one of eight children of Song Renqiong and Zhong ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...

Song had been a student leader of the revolutionary Red Guards at the Girls’ Middle School, attended by the children of the party elite, in 1966 when Mao, in an attempt to regain the initiative ...