Tag: Ye Jianying
Why Ye Jianying Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Other Marshals Were Purged in the February Countercurrent
On Feb. 11 and Feb. 16, 1967, senior Chinese Communist Party officials gathered at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai...
‘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...
Nie Rongzhen: The Marshal Who Quietly Shaped the 1976 Power Struggle
By He Zi When the story of the Gang of Four’s downfall is told, the script almost always centers on...