Tag: cultural revolution
How Beijing’s Character Simplification Campaign Severed China from Its Own Civilization
Look carefully at two versions of the same character. The first is 愛, the traditional form of the Chinese...
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...
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,...
Mao Launched the Cultural Revolution to Seize Absolute Power, Not to Pursue an Ideal
Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution ended, competing theories still fight for dominance: was it...
How Deng Xiaoping Dismantled Mao’s Security Chief in 1978
Mao Zedong's personal security chief, Wang Dongxing, had spent thirty years as the most feared man in...
‘Serving the People:’ Chinese Netizens Name CCP Slogans When Asked the Biggest Lie They Know
A Guangdong blogger's throwaway question set off one of the more striking displays of public cynicism...
Li Rui Archives Win Landmark US Court Ruling Against CCP Efforts to Reclaim Diaries
A Seven-Year Campaign Defeated On March 31, 2026, a U.S. federal district court in California issued...
Inside Beijing’s Jingxi Hotel: Accounts Detail CCP Investigations and Asset Seizures
The gray building sits on the western extension of Chang'an Avenue, Beijing's ceremonial spine, and in...
How Mao Zedong Used Personal Warmth to Remove Senior CCP Leaders
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, developed a pattern that became familiar to...
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...
Communism: The Ideology That Turns Envy Into a Political Weapon
In 1959, a village party secretary in Henan province sat down to fill out his annual grain production...
The Grandson Mao Zedong Refused to Meet: A Family Secret the Party Won’t Explain
A grandfather who never came Mao Zedong was 77 when he learned he had a grandson. He named the boy...