Tag: Chinese history
China’s Five Sacred Creatures and What They Actually Meant
The dragon: lord of transformation, emblem of imperial power The Shuowen Jiezi, the Han dynasty's...
The Story a Film Couldn’t Tell: How Mao’s Campaign Silenced China’s Finest Filmmakers
In 1951, Mao Zedong personally ordered a political campaign that destroyed the careers of the team behind...
Changsha: City of Poets, Scholars, and Ancient Kilns
Changsha sits at the confluence of mountain and river, with Yuelu Mountain rising to its west and the...
How the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 Mirrors the CCP’s Coming Collapse
The Wuchang Uprising of 1911 that destroyed China's last imperial dynasty was triggered by a bomb-maker's...
12 Ways the Cultural Revolution’s Lingering Shadow Continues to Haunt China
By Shun Sheng, Commentary Nearly 60 years after the launch of the Cultural Revolution, the political...
Ancient Chinese Health Wisdom: What the Book of Rites Says About the Body
In classical Chinese thought, virtue produces a physically observable effect on the body The Book...
Cui Hao: Adviser Behind Anti-Buddhist Campaign Executed With Entire Clan
Cui Hao was among the most influential advisers of the Northern Wei dynasty in fifth-century China. He...
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...
Siheyuan: How China’s Courtyard Homes Shaped Family Life for 3,000 Years
A courtyard enclosed on four sides For many Chinese families, the idea of a proper home begins with...
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...
Mao’s Widow Jiang Qing Spent 12 Years in an Urn Buried Under a False Name
At the foot of the Western Hills in Beijing sits a public cemetery called Futian, a burial ground for...
From Mao to Xi: Li Rui’s Diaries Expose Brutality, Cover-Ups, and the Cycle of Dictatorship
A U.S. federal court in Northern California ruled on Tuesday, March 31 that the original diaries and...