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CHINESE HISTORY

Mao Zedong Spent His Final Years in Clinical Paranoia, His Personal Physician Wrote

To the Party that still venerates him, Mao Zedong was an infallible titan who stood astride history. The private record tells a different story: a man who refused medicine because

The June Fourth Incident Was a Tiananmen Massacre Combined with a Nationwide Crackdown in China

What was June Fourth? June Fourth was not the suppression of a riot, not a crowd-clearing operation, and not merely the enforcement of martial law. Rather, the author argues that
PLA Daily Journalist Jiang Lin Alleges Systematic Rewriting Of June Fourth History
June Fourth Survivor Li Shuangde Recounts Being Wounded and Rescued by Beijing Residents
Sheng Xue on the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement: From Pleas for Political Rehabilitation to the Reckoning of History
A Chinese Law Student Who Joined the 1989 Tiananmen Hunger Strike Recalls the Six Weeks That Led to the Massacre
Zhao Ziyang’s Secret Verdict on Tiananmen: Li Peng Demanded the Shooting, Deng Xiaoping Gave the Order
Hidden for Decades: Restored Tiananmen Footage Offers Unfiltered View of June 4
The Lantern Festival in Chinese History: Ritual Origins, Imperial Celebrations, and Folk Traditions from
The Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This year it lands on March...
Why Ye Jianying Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Other Marshals Were Purged in the February Countercurrent
On Feb. 11 and Feb. 16, 1967, senior Chinese Communist Party officials gathered at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai...
Zhang Xueliang’s Regret Over the Xi’an Incident: Saving the CCP, Losing His Brother
Zhang Xueliang was once remembered as the general who forced a halt to China’s civil war in 1936. In...
Japan Moved by the Lost Heritage Displayed in Shen Yun Performances: ‘I Truly Long to See a China Like
For centuries, traditional Chinese civilization profoundly shaped Japan’s cultural landscape. The architectural...
Taiwan’s 1947 228 Incident: Archival Records Examine CCP Underground Networks
A confrontation between tobacco enforcement officers and a street vendor in Taipei on Feb. 27, 1947,...
Mao’s Three Political ‘Coups:’ How They Remade China and Echo in the Xi Era (Part One)
In its conventional sense, a coup is an extraordinary move to overturn a political order, usually by...
April 12 Purge: Chiang Kai-shek Orders Party Cleansing as Bai Chongxi Leads Campaign Against the CCP
Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Expeditionary National Revolutionary Army Chiang Kai-shek ordered...
Deng Xiaoping’s ‘Kill 200,000 for 20 Years of Stability’ Remark and the Legacy of June Fourth
In February 1979, Deng Xiaoping deployed 200,000 Chinese Communist troops to invade Vietnam. Within one...
Why Did Zhou Enlai’s Widow Insist on Handing Her Diary to the CCP? The Political Calculation Behind a
After Zhou Enlai's death in 1976, his widow Deng Yingchao, a senior CCP official in her own right, produced...