Tag: cultural revolution
CCP Elder Song Ping Dies at 109 After Watching Xi Jinping Dismantle His Legacy
Song Ping, the Chinese Communist Party elder who shaped the careers of two generations of CCP leaders...
The Hidden Cost of Revolution: How Communist Forces Spared Zhao Ziyang, Then Executed His Father
In the early years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Communist leaders including He Long, Lü Zhencao...
Why Ye Jianying Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Other Marshals Were Purged in the February Countercurrent
On Feb. 11 and Feb. 16, 1967, senior Chinese Communist Party officials gathered at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai...
Three Years Inside Beijing’s COVID Lockdowns: One Resident’s Journey from Sealed Doors to White Paper
What follows is one Beijing resident's record of the three years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent...
Zhang Xueliang’s Regret Over the Xi’an Incident: Saving the CCP, Losing His Brother
Zhang Xueliang was once remembered as the general who forced a halt to China’s civil war in 1936. In...
Mao’s Three Political ‘Coups:’ How They Remade China and Echo in the Xi Era (Part One)
In its conventional sense, a coup is an extraordinary move to overturn a political order, usually by...
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...
A Shanghai Teacher’s Firsthand Account of Cultural Revolution Home Raids in 1966
By Ge Jianxiong For many Chinese citizens under 40, the phrase “home raid” may carry little meaning...
As Mao Waged War, Chiang Kai-Shek Moved to Preserve China’s Traditional Heritage
When then-leader Mao Zedong unleashed the brutality and chaos of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, along...
Six Years After Li Wenliang’s Death, Overseas Chinese Rally in New York for CCP Accountability
By Tian Jingxin Feb. 7, 2025, marked six years since the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, the Wuhan physician...