Tag: Lin Biao
Mao Zedong Spent His Final Years in Clinical Paranoia, His Personal Physician Wrote
To the Party that still venerates him, Mao Zedong was an infallible titan who stood astride history....
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...
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...
Xinhua Drops Xi Jinping From a Line That Used to Place Him Alongside Mao Zedong
On April 8, 2026, China's official Xinhua News Agency released a set-piece article titled "Forging a...
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...
Peng Dehuai Deeply Wounded by Political Accusations, Died Without Clearing His Name
At a Politburo Standing Committee meeting on Aug. 1, 1959, Lin Biao told those present: “This is not...
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...
Will China Face a Military Coup? Risk Assessment Amid Reports on Zhang Youxia
Following Zhang Youxia’s downfall, rumors have continued to circulate within political circles and online...
How CCP Propaganda Misled the Marshall Mission and Shaped US Decisions in China
By Fu Longshan Between 1937 and 1949, how did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), operating under the...
The Killing of Marshal He Long: How the CCP Purges Its Generals—and Why the Pattern Still Matters
By Fu Longshan In official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mythology, He Long occupies a sanctified...
The True ‘Two-Faced Man:’ How Lin Biao Was Eliminated Through a Bureaucratic Killing
By Fu Longshan Lin Biao’s death was not an accident, nor a failed escape Lin Biao did not die because...
Can Xi Jinping Be Brought Down by His Closest Aide? Cai Qi, Power, and the Politics of Survival in China
By Jian Yi The dictator’s fate—and the men closest to him “The people say: if Stalin had died ten...