Tag: Anti-Rightist Campaign
How Sun Yat-sen’s Widow Became One of Mao’s Most Vocal Enforcers in the 1957 Purge of Intellectuals
A story has been circulating on mainland Chinese internet forums for years: that Soong Ching-ling, the...
‘Never Let Taiwan Fall Into the Hands of Thugs’: Mainland Chinese Mock Beijing’s Unification Pitch on
At a routine briefing on June 10, 2026, Zhang Han, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office,...
Mao’s ‘Heaven Won’t Fall’: How the CCP Was Built on Impunity
In 1942, Mao Zedong launched a campaign of mass terror inside the Party's own wartime base at Yan'an,...
Deng Xiaoping’s Hidden Face: The Calculated Silence Behind China’s ‘Reform Era’ Architect
Deng Xiaoping, who served as the Chinese Communist Party's de facto top leader from the late 1970s through...
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...
The Political Playbook Behind Mao Zedong’s Rise
By Jing Chen During the Chinese Civil War, Nationalist insider Jiang Lianru — then serving as secretary...