Tag: Chinese political history
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...
Peng Dehuai Deeply Wounded by Political Accusations, Died Without Clearing His Name
At a Politburo Standing Committee meeting on Aug. 1, 1959, Lin Biao told those present: “This is not...
Wen Jiabao’s 2026 New Year Card Renews Questions Over Wenchuan Earthquake Warnings
Wen Jiabao’s handwritten Year of the Horse New Year card circulates widely (Image: Internet image)...
How Zhou Enlai Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Every Other CCP Leader Fell
Zhou Enlai served as the Chinese Communist Party's prime minister for 26 years, and to this day many...
Mao Zedong Secretly Recorded? Soapbox and Button Bugging Allegations and the Cultural Revolution Power
To grasp Mao Zedong’s words and actions, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee tampered with...
Yang Dezhong, the ‘Chief Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai,’ and the CCP’s Inner-Court Power Struggles
Inside the compound at Zhongnanhai, the seat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership in Beijing...
Hu Yaobang and the Limits of Moral Politics in the CCP
By Fu Longshan Hu Yaobang once stated that the Xidan Democracy Wall, a short-lived forum for public...
Seven Assassination Attempts: How Deng Xiaoping Survived Mao-Era Plots
By Longshan Fu From the 1960s through the late 1980s, Deng Xiaoping, China’s reform architect and...
Jiang Zemin Ridiculed by CCP ‘Red Second Generation’: A Photo Too Fake to Be True
At Deng Xiaoping’s farewell ceremony in 1997, then–Party leader Jiang Zemin appeared overcome with emotion...
The Fourth Plenum Curse: How the CCP’s Power Ritual Keeps Repeating Itself
In the Chinese Communist Party’s political calendar, the Fourth Plenum—the fourth full meeting of each...