| 迫害 | pò hài | to persecute / persecution |   |
| 彭德怀 | Péng Dé huái | Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
| 贺龙 | Hè Lóng | He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
| 文字狱 | wén zì yù | literary inquisition / official persecution of intellectuals for their writing | |
| 郭小川 | Guō Xiǎo chuān | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution | |
| 二茬罪 | èr chá zuì | to suffer second persecution | |
| 二遍苦 | èr biàn kǔ | second persecution | |
| 揪斗 | jiū dòu | to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution) | |
| 邓拓 | Dèng Tuò | Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨 | |
| 被迫害妄想症 | bèi pò hài wàng xiǎng zhèng | delusion of persecution | |
| 基于性别的迫害专题讨论会 | | Symposium on Gender-based Persecution | |
| 性别迫害 | | gender-related persecution | |
| 关于性别迫害问题的指导原则 | | Guidelines on gender-related persecution | |
