Tag: Chinese revolution
Mao’s ‘Heaven Won’t Fall’: How the CCP Was Built on Impunity
In 1942, Mao Zedong launched a campaign of mass terror inside the Party's own wartime base at Yan'an,...
Soong Ching-ling: Sun Yat-sen’s Widow Was a Secret Communist Agent for Fifty Years
The Chinese Communist Party announced Soong Ching-ling's Party membership as a deathbed honor in 1981...
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...
How a Soviet Adviser Ghostwrote Sun Yat-sen’s Pro-Communist Deathbed Letter in 1925
On March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China, died in Beijing. As the...
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...