Tag: cultural revolution
Life After Defection: How the CCP Treated Fu Zuoyi, Zhang Zhizhong, and Their Aides
By Fu Longshan Symbols of the united front In the history of the Chinese Communist Party’s united...
From Northern Expedition Leader to ‘Reactionary Warlord:’ How the CCP Rewrote Yan Xishan
By He Zi Yan Xishan was a major political and military figure in Republican China. As the long-time...
Blood Under the Monastery: Kumbum Monastery and the Beginning of a Tibetan Buddhist Catastrophe
By Xiao Guang The sky above the Tibetan plateau stretches so wide it commands reverence. Fierce winds...
‘Storming Huairen Hall:’ A Failed Coup Attempt and the Shockwaves Inside China’s Military
How the Cultural Revolution’s “February Adverse Current” exposed deep fractures within the Chinese Communist...
How Chen Yun And Li Xiannian Survived Mao And Controlled China’s Economy
By Fu Longshan To understand the true nature of Chen Yun and Li Xiannian—two of the Chinese Communist...
The Final 27 Days of Liu Shaoqi: Torture, Erasure, and Death in Mao’s China
By Fu LongshanWhat did Liu Shaoqi experience in the final days before his death? Fragmentary but chilling...
Hu Yaobang’s Fatal Softness: How Empathy Threatened the CCP
By Fu Longshan In the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) system, so-called “rehabilitation” is rarely an...
How the Cultural Revolution Systematically Destroyed China’s Cultural Heritage
By Dong Jia, Vision Times “Endless falling leaves rustle down; the Yangtze flows on without cease,...
Jingxi Hotel — The CCP’s True Center of ‘Closed-Door Power’
By Xu Rong The Jingxi Hotel, located on the western side of Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue, is a place...
From ‘Black Five Categories’ to Canada: One Family’s Lifelong Persecution Under the Chinese Communist
By Xiao Ran Born in a remote mountain village in Gao’an, Jiangxi Province, Zhang Bo once believed...
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...
Nie Rongzhen: The Marshal Who Quietly Shaped the 1976 Power Struggle
By He Zi When the story of the Gang of Four’s downfall is told, the script almost always centers on...