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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...
How Deng Xiaoping Dismantled Mao’s Security Chief in 1978
Mao Zedong's personal security chief, Wang Dongxing, had spent thirty years as the most feared man in...
Mao Ordered Troops Not to Fight Japan, Wartime Record and Lushan Documents Show
China’s War of Resistance Against Japan from 1937 to 1945 required sustained military engagement across...
How Mao Zedong Used Personal Warmth to Remove Senior CCP Leaders
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, developed a pattern that became familiar to...
Deng Xiaoping’s Hidden Face: The Calculated Silence Behind China’s ‘Reform Era’ Architect
Deng Xiaoping, who served as the Chinese Communist Party's de facto top leader from the late 1970s through...
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...
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...
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...
Disintegrating the Culture of the Chinese Communist Party (Chapter One, Part II): Dialectical Materialism
First published in 2006 by the Chinese-language Epoch Times, this series lays out in detail the vast...