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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
Why Mao’s Most Dependable Enforcer Was the First to Fall: The Rise and Ruin of Peng Zhen
For more than two decades before the Cultural Revolution, Peng Zhen occupied a rare tier inside the CCP...
The Six Words That Reshaped Rural China’s Past
For more than half a century, one six-character slogan played an outsized role in mobilizing rural China...
How a Top Nationalist Strategist Became Mao’s Most Damaging Insider: The Double Life and Final Regret
For decades, the name Guo Rugui lived in the shadows of the Chinese Civil War. A graduate of the Whampoa...
Deng Xiaoping’s Dilemma: Why He Rehabilitated Liu Shaoqi but Preserved Mao’s Myth
Deng Xiaoping was one of the most politically astute leaders within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
‘Xiaoman’s Waist’: The Ancient Love Story Behind Guangzhou’s Iconic Tower
Rising over the skyline of Guangzhou, China’s 600-meter television tower twists elegantly toward the...
The Top ‘Military Tiger’ Who Died Before Trial: PLA General Xu Caihou’s Bloody Legacy
Since July 20, 1999, when Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Gong, countless practitioners...
Historic Power Struggle Between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao: Shanghai Faction Battle Unfolds
In terms of reform and opening-up, Jiang Zemin made little mark, falling far behind predecessors like...
Former Reuters Correspondent and ‘Beijing Hostage’ During the Cultural Revolution Passes Away
Anthony Grey, the former Reuters correspondent who was held under house arrest in Beijing for more than...
Will China See Another Hua Guofeng? Xi Jinping, Dictatorship, and the Politics of Divine Retribution
Public frustration toward Xi Jinping is easy to understand. Yet, as commentator Lü Honglai argues, calling...