Tag: Chinese intellectuals
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...
China’s Most Educated Man Gu Hongming Spent His Life Defending His Country’s Lost Values
At the turn of the twentieth century, China was losing a war it had been fighting for decades, not on...
Wu Zuguang’s 1998 Speech in Beijing: Calling Mao a ‘Bandit’ and the Applause That Followed
In August 1998, inside a modest bookstore near the China Art Museum in Beijing, a routine literary event...
Lin Huiyin’s Early Death and Liang Sicheng’s Persecution: A Cultural Tragedy Under CCP Rule
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin entered the 20th century as heirs to both tradition and modernity. Trained...
Tsinghua Professor, Ren Jiantao, Goes Viral for Critiquing China’s One-Man Rule
Ren Jiantao, a professor of political science at Tsinghua University, one of China's most elite institutions...
Japan Won’t Return to Militarism: Its Wartime Ideology Came From French Philosophy, Not Conservatism
By Liu Junning Japan's February 2026 lower house election delivered a result that sent tremors across...
Why Li Dazhao Was Really Hanged: Power, Subversion, and the CCP’s First Execution
By Zhi Xiaomin Li Dazhao was executed by hanging in Beijing by the Beiyang government. For decades...
Qian Mu Read a Party Proclamation for Three Minutes—and Chose Exile
By Chen Jing Saving a last breath for Chinese civilization: Qian Mu and the newspaper that decided...
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...