Tag: Mao Zedong
Inside Qincheng Prison: The CCP’s Secret Detention System and the Prisoner Who Had to Stay Alive
In the outskirts of Beijing, behind layers of secrecy and barbed wire, stands Qincheng Prison, a facility...
How the Chinese Communist Party Changed Chinese Characters—and What Was Lost
A century ago, some of China’s most accomplished classical scholars warned that altering the written...
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...
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...
Why Xi Jinping’s Military Purge Is Destroying China’s Own Armed Forces
In March 2026, the National People's Congress, Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature, opened its annual...
Cultural Revolution: Red Guards Destroy Confucius Temple and Tombs in Qufu, Led by Tan Houlan
The statue of Confucius stood for centuries in the main hall of his temple in Qufu. It was pulled down...
$278 Million in Dark Money: How Neville Roy Singham and CodePink Built a Global Revolutionary Network
According to Fox News on March 24, American activist group CodePink co-founders Jodie Evans and Medea...
From Mao’s Sparrow Killings to Xi’s Zero-COVID: Critics Warn of a Recurring Pattern in China
In the late 1950s, millions of Chinese citizens were mobilized in a nationwide effort to eradicate sparrows...
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...
How a Soviet Adviser Ghostwrote Sun Yat-sen’s Pro-Communist Deathbed Letter in 1925
On March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China, died in Beijing. As the...
The Hidden Cost of Revolution: How Communist Forces Spared Zhao Ziyang, Then Executed His Father
In the early years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Communist leaders including He Long, Lü Zhencao...
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...