Among many narrating strategies of writing memoirs of one's Cultural Revolution experiences, the use of universalism is particularly noteworthy since universalism comes from the English world and is presumably unfamiliar to the Chinese narrators. Especially for those once Red Guards, who used to inflict ”class enemies” in the revolutionary period, the adoption of a universalistic discourse may assist in achieving a retrospective standpoint that places the narrators somewhere external to their roles in the Cultural Revolution. In addition, such a discursive strategy could hold Mao Zedong responsible for abusing the loyalty of Red Guards in him and to that extent release Red Guards from guilt of following him blindly.