Bian Zhongyun

Bian Zhongyun (Chinese: 卞仲耘, 1916, Wuwei County, China – 5 August 1966, Beijing) was a deputy principal at the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, in Beijing, China. She became the first victim of the Cultural Revolution in August 1966, when she was beaten to death with wooden sticks by her students, who were led by Song Binbin.^[1] Prior to her death, Bian had been the party leader at the school, but was denounced as a "counter-revolutionary revisionist" by Red Guards

A documentary about her, Though I am Gone, was released in 2006.

References

1. The Chinese Cultural Revolution; Remembering Mao's Victims 05/15/2007 Spiegel