Tag: Yan’an
Mao’s ‘Heaven Won’t Fall’: How the CCP Was Built on Impunity
In 1942, Mao Zedong launched a campaign of mass terror inside the Party's own wartime base at Yan'an,...
Zhang Guotao: The CCP Co-Founder Who Watched Yan’an Become Moscow — and Then Walked Out – Part II
This is the second part of a two-part series on Zhang Guotao, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist...
Origins of Tea in China: From Shennong’s Legend to Lu Yu’s Classic of Tea
Chinese legend holds that Shennong, the ancient ruler revered as a founder of agriculture and medicine...
Zhang Xueliang’s Regret Over the Xi’an Incident: Saving the CCP, Losing His Brother
Zhang Xueliang was once remembered as the general who forced a halt to China’s civil war in 1936. In...
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...
Lois Snow: Confronting the CCP’s Bloody Truth
Note: Time rewinds to 1989. The gunfire at Tiananmen Square on June 4 shattered the last illusions in...