Bu Weihua (1950-), is a native of Rugao, Jiangsu Province. In 1963, Bu was admitted to Tsinghua University High School in Beijing, the cradle for the Cultural Revolution's Red Guard movement, and was a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. In 1969, Bu went to Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, to join the army; from 1971 to 1975, he served as a soldier in the 3262nd unit of the Shenyang Military Region. After demobilization, he worked at the Beijing Institute of Technology. In 1977, Bu was admitted to the Department of History of the Beijing Normal College, and after graduation in 1982, he worked for the Commission for Collecting CCP Historical Data. In 1988, he started to work for the Central Party History Research Office, and retired in 2010.
Bu has devoted himself to the study of the history of the Cultural Revolution. His works include “The Development of the Red Guards in Tsinghua University High School” (published in the party-led journal CPC History Studies in 1999), and Smashing the Old World: The Turmoil and Havoc of the Cultural Revolution (published by Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture of Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008.
