Tag: Chiang Kai-shek
‘Serving the People:’ Chinese Netizens Name CCP Slogans When Asked the Biggest Lie They Know
A Guangdong blogger's throwaway question set off one of the more striking displays of public cynicism...
Zhang Guotao: The CCP Co-Founder Who Watched Yan’an Become Moscow — and Then Walked Out – Part II
This is the second part of a two-part series on Zhang Guotao, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist...
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...
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,...
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...
Zhou Enlai’s Four-Point Plan and the 1956 Secret Envoys: Why Chiang Kai-shek Rejected US Troop Withdrawal
To revisit the history of cross-strait relations is to revisit a question that has never fully receded...
As Mao Waged War, Chiang Kai-Shek Moved to Preserve China’s Traditional Heritage
When then-leader Mao Zedong unleashed the brutality and chaos of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, along...
How CCP Propaganda Misled the Marshall Mission and Shaped US Decisions in China
By Fu Longshan Between 1937 and 1949, how did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), operating under the...
From Northern Expedition Leader to ‘Reactionary Warlord:’ How the CCP Rewrote Yan Xishan
By He Zi Yan Xishan was a major political and military figure in Republican China. As the long-time...
The Xi’an Incident: A Mutiny That Changed China’s Fate
On Dec. 12, 1936, in the 25th year of the Republic of China, Zhang Xueliang—then Deputy Commander-in-Chief...
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...
The Political Playbook Behind Mao Zedong’s Rise
By Jing Chen During the Chinese Civil War, Nationalist insider Jiang Lianru — then serving as secretary...