According to Wang Youqin, author of Victims of the Cultural Revolution , after Mao received the Red Guards and instructed them in the “militant fight,” more than 1,700 people were beaten, drowned, or scalded to death.
Wang Jou-čchin ve své knize Oběti kulturní revoluce tvrdí, že jakmile Mao přijal Rudé gardy a poučil je o „ozbrojeném boji“, bylo ubito, utopeno či smrtelně opařeno více než 1 700 lidí.