Tag: Great Leap Forward
Inside Mao’s Inner Circle: Tan Zhenlin’s ‘Three Regrets’ and a Chilling Reply
Wu Faxian, former commander of the Chinese Communist Party’s air force, left behind a memoir that stands...
From Land Reform to Tiananmen: One Man’s Account of CCP Political Campaigns in China
In modern China, the legacy of political campaigns launched under Chinese Communist Party rule continues...
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...
Chinese New Year 1961: Famine, Cannibalism, and the Great Leap Forward’s Deadliest Winter
It was Feb. 15, 1961. In the official language of the Chinese Communist Party, it was described as a...
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...
From Xinyang to Zero-COVID: A History of Unchecked Authority
By Chen Jing Lives devoured by politics In modern Chinese history, the “Xinyang Incident” in Henan...
Memories of Jining: A Elderly Survivor of Tyranny Quits the Chinese Communist Party
The Tuidang movement, started in November 2004, encourages Chinese around the world to renounce their...
What Lin Biao Really Thought of Mao Zedong: Inside the Secret Remarks That Condemned the Chairman’s Rule
In public, Lin Biao appeared to embody absolute loyalty to Mao Zedong—he bowed, praised, and shouted...