Tag: Mao political purges
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...
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,...