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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
Zhou Enlai and the Famine Beijing Chose to Ignore
By Yitian In the China of the early 1960s, famine was not a rumor-it was a landscape. Villages emptied...
Princess Wencheng’s Journey Along the Tea-Horse Road
 By Xiao Jing A line from a Yuan-dynasty drama echoes across centuries: “Managing a household begins...
Seven Assassination Attempts: How Deng Xiaoping Survived Mao-Era Plots
By Longshan Fu From the 1960s through the late 1980s, Deng Xiaoping, China’s reform architect and...
Nie Rongzhen: The Marshal Who Quietly Shaped the 1976 Power Struggle
By He Zi When the story of the Gang of Four’s downfall is told, the script almost always centers on...
Why Mao Feared Huang Wanli: The ‘Chosen Rightist’ Who Refused to Break
China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign swallowed more than half a million intellectuals, but very few left a...
How Chiang Kai-shek Turned Taiwan Into the Guardian of Chinese Civilization
A quiet mountain, a philosophical calling North of Taipei rises a quiet, mist-covered peak once known...
Why the UN Resolution 2758 on Taiwan Has Come to Haunt Beijing: 5 Hidden Mistakes in a Diplomatic ‘Victory
By Fu Longshan, Vision Times. When United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 passed in 1971,...
The Political Playbook Behind Mao Zedong’s Rise
By Jing Chen During the Chinese Civil War, Nationalist insider Jiang Lianru — then serving as secretary...
Fan Li: The Statesman Who Saved a Kingdom
By Xiaofan Jia Across the five centuries of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, China...