Tag: Chinese Civil War
Zhou Enlai Helped Mao Destroy China. A New 1,200-Page Biography Explains How.
The author, historian Chen Jian, who has taught at leading British and American universities and now...
Mao Set Kill Quotas by City: 700,000 Executed in 1951
In 1951, gunshots rang through the lives of countless ordinary people across China. Men who had switched...
Mao Ordered Troops Not to Fight Japan, Wartime Record and Lushan Documents Show
China’s War of Resistance Against Japan from 1937 to 1945 required sustained military engagement across...
The CCP Betrayed Everyone Who Helped It Win China’s Civil War
In December 1948, as Chinese Communist Party forces and Nationalist troops clashed in the decisive Huaihai...
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 Guotao: He Helped Build the Chinese Communist Party and By 1927, He Already Had Doubts – Part I
On a spring morning in April 1938, Zhang Guotao stood at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Huangling...
PLA Daily Pushes ‘All Citizens as Soldiers,’ Raising Questions About China’s War Mobilization Strategy
China’s military newspaper is once again speaking in the language of total mobilization. In its March...
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,...
Cao Xingcheng’s Open Letter to Xi Jinping on Taiwan and Military Unification
Editor’s Note: This article reproduces an open letter circulating in Chinese-language media. Several...
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...