Bian Zhongyun

Bian Zhongyun (; 19 June 19165 August 1966) was a deputy principal at the Beijing Normal University Female Middle School (now Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University). She was attracted to the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War and joined the party in 1941, and before working for the high school in Beijing, she worked as an editor for People's Daily then located in rural Hebei. During the Red August of 1966, she was beaten to death by the school's female Red Guards, becoming the first educator to be beaten to death in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution.

Life Bian was raised in Wuwei, Anhui. Prior to her death, Bian had been the party leader at the school.

In 1966, Mao had urged young people to rise up against their parents and teachers. Song Binbin and another student, Liu Jin, put up the first poster denouncing teachers at the school.

In March 1966, after an earthquake near Beijing, the school told students that they should run out of the classroom as soon as possible if another earthquake occurred. Red Guard students tested Bian, by asking if they should carry out the portrait of Mao in their classrooms. Later, Bian was further denounced as a "counter-revolutionary revisionist" by Song's group of Red Guards.

Murder Red Guard students broke in to Bian's home, burning her books. This included the murder of Bian Zhongyun.

Legacy A documentary about her, Though I Am Gone, was released in 2006. It claims that Song, a student leader involved in the Red Guards in the school, was sent to the United States to study on government sponsorship and invited back to Beijing Normal University as a prominent alumna. Song's father, Song Renqiong was the mayor of Beijing and a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party, thereby immunising her from any responsibility, direct or indirect, for Bian's death.