Tag: Mao Zedong
‘Long Live Mao’: How Mao Zedong Turned on His Earliest Loyalist, Peng Zhen
By Yuan Bin, Vision Times Before the Cultural Revolution erupted into nationwide chaos, Peng Zhen...
Top Secret: How Mao Zedong Silenced a Senior Spy—and Why His Finance Chief Knew Everything
By Fu Longshan Yan’an’s myth of self-reliance—and the reality of financial collapse In the Chinese...
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...
‘Storming Huairen Hall:’ A Failed Coup Attempt and the Shockwaves Inside China’s Military
How the Cultural Revolution’s “February Adverse Current” exposed deep fractures within the Chinese Communist...
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...
Zhang Youxia as the Second Lin Biao: How the Chinese Communist Party Is Racing Toward Collapse
Mao Zedong’s handling of Lin Biao stands as a textbook example of internal political struggle within...
The Final 27 Days of Liu Shaoqi: Torture, Erasure, and Death in Mao’s China
By Fu LongshanWhat did Liu Shaoqi experience in the final days before his death? Fragmentary but chilling...
From Xinyang to Zero-COVID: A History of Unchecked Authority
By Chen Jing Lives devoured by politics In modern Chinese history, the “Xinyang Incident” in Henan...
‘Wife-Swapping’ Fees Hit 100,000 Yuan in Recurring CCP Scandal
By Li Youyou Reports of moral corruption within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have long drawn...
The Life of Zhao Ziyang: What His Experiences Reveal About the CCP’s Brutality
By Zhang Yuming A former section chief surnamed Zhang once told me that when the mass rally was convened...
CCP Regime Survival Over National Interest: The Real Logic Behind Its Foreign Policy
By Fu Longshan In 1951, as the United States and Japan signed a pair of treaties that would define...
Mao Zedong and the Myth of His Son’s ‘Heroic Sacrifice’ in the Korean War
By Yan Changhai For more than seventy years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has promoted a carefully...