Tag: reform era China
Zhao Ziyang’s Fall Was Complete a Year Before Tiananmen
Zhao Ziyang refused to back the Tiananmen crackdown and died under house arrest Zhao Ziyang, who served...
Revisiting the Tiananmen Square Massacre
I. The intent to kill: Mourning Hu Tomorrow marks June Fourth. A nation that has experienced a massacre...
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...
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...