Tag: Political Campaigns
Mao Set Kill Quotas by City: 700,000 Executed in 1951
In 1951, gunshots rang through the lives of countless ordinary people across China. Men who had switched...
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...
A Shanghai Teacher’s Firsthand Account of Cultural Revolution Home Raids in 1966
By Ge Jianxiong For many Chinese citizens under 40, the phrase “home raid” may carry little meaning...
Peng Peiyun’s Death: Reassessing the Figure Behind China’s Population Control Campaign (Part I)
On Dec. 21, 2025, Peng Peiyun died in Beijing at the age of 96. Some media outlets noted that the date...