Tag: Cold War China
Mao Zedong Spent His Final Years in Clinical Paranoia, His Personal Physician Wrote
To the Party that still venerates him, Mao Zedong was an infallible titan who stood astride history....
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...
Deng Xiaoping’s 18-Day Vietnam War and Why China Avoids Military Conflict Over Iran
In February 1979, Chinese troops crossed into northern Vietnam. Eighteen days later, Beijing declared...
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...
The True ‘Two-Faced Man:’ How Lin Biao Was Eliminated Through a Bureaucratic Killing
By Fu Longshan Lin Biao’s death was not an accident, nor a failed escape Lin Biao did not die because...