Tag: Li Rui
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,...
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...
Who Kept Zhao Ziyang Under House Arrest for 16 Years? The Answer Points to Jiang Zemin
Deng Xiaoping removed Zhao; Jiang Zemin made sure he stayed gone The initial decision to remove Zhao...
How the CCP’s Plan to Prevent a Second Cultural Revolution Produced Xi Jinping
In the 1980s, the CCP's senior leadership in the Zhongnanhai compound attempted a political experiment...
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...
Wu Zuguang’s 1998 Speech in Beijing: Calling Mao a ‘Bandit’ and the Applause That Followed
In August 1998, inside a modest bookstore near the China Art Museum in Beijing, a routine literary event...