“红卫兵”是个30多年前的旧名词,当初曾当过红卫兵的“小将”们,如今皆是50岁开外的老者了。可“红卫兵”这个词似乎还有相当的活力,不时地出现在文学与传媒之中。张承志等几个“新时期”作家在提到这个词时,仍不免有炫耀 “Red Guards” is a old term more than 30 years ago, had been a Red Guards “teenager” who are now all 50-year-old man. It seems that the word “Red Guards” still has considerable vitality and appears in literature and the media from time to time. Several “new period” writers such as Zhang Chengzhi still fail to show off when they mention the term