Tag: Mao Zedong
Inside the CCP’s ‘Harem Culture’: How Five Generations of Chinese Leaders Hid Mistresses, Moved Assets
For decades, senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have exploited government institutions to...
Mao Xinyu’s Alleged WeChat Post on Zhang Youxia Raises Questions Over CCP Red Second-Generation Discontent
A screenshot purportedly showing Mao Xinyu expressing support for senior military figure Zhang Youxia...
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...
How Zhou Enlai Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Every Other CCP Leader Fell
Zhou Enlai served as the Chinese Communist Party's prime minister for 26 years, and to this day many...
The CCP’s Playbook for Burying Disaster: Famine, Flood, and Massacre in China’s Heartland
Henan province sits between the Yellow River and the Huai River, at the geographic and symbolic heart...
Deng Xiaoping’s Legacy: Reform, Repression, and an Unfinished Reckoning
Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s death in 1997. Chinese philosopher Li Zehou once...
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...
Mao’s Great Famine: How the Chinese Communist Party Exported Food While Millions Starved
The Chinese Communist Party has long attributed the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961 to "three years...
Yang Dezhong, the ‘Chief Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai,’ and the CCP’s Inner-Court Power Struggles
Inside the compound at Zhongnanhai, the seat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership in Beijing...
As Mao Waged War, Chiang Kai-Shek Moved to Preserve China’s Traditional Heritage
When then-leader Mao Zedong unleashed the brutality and chaos of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, along...
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...