Tag: Great Leap Forward
China’s Impossible Rice Quotas Turn Farmland Into a Numbers Game
Officials in a southern Chinese county were assigned a rice quotas that exceeded the total amount of...
Beijing Revives Mao-Era Nationalization Rhetoric, Signaling a New Assault on Private Wealth
On June 19, 2026, China's state news agency Xinhua published a lengthy celebratory article titled "The...
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...
Why Mao Zedong Really Launched the Cultural Revolution
May 16 was the 60th anniversary of the "May 16 Circular," the foundational document drafted under Mao...
Wang Guangmei’s Tribute to Mao After He Killed Her Husband Liu Shaoqi
Liu Shaoqi served as China's head of state throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. Mao Zedong had him imprisoned...
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...
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...
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...
From Mao to Xi: Li Rui’s Diaries Expose Brutality, Cover-Ups, and the Cycle of Dictatorship
A U.S. federal court in Northern California ruled on Tuesday, March 31 that the original diaries and...