Tag: Zhou Enlai
The Cultural Revolution Wounds That Haunted Hu Yaobang to His Grave
Hu Yaobang led the Chinese Communist Party as general secretary in the 1980s and became the face of its...
Zhou Enlai Helped Mao Destroy China. A New 1,200-Page Biography Explains How.
The author, historian Chen Jian, who has taught at leading British and American universities and now...
The Story a Film Couldn’t Tell: How Mao’s Campaign Silenced China’s Finest Filmmakers
In 1951, Mao Zedong personally ordered a political campaign that destroyed the careers of the team behind...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Mao Zedong Secretly Recorded? Soapbox and Button Bugging Allegations and the Cultural Revolution Power
To grasp Mao Zedong’s words and actions, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee tampered with...
Yang Dezhong, the ‘Chief Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai,’ and the CCP’s Inner-Court Power Struggles
Inside the compound at Zhongnanhai, the seat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership in Beijing...
The Killing of Marshal He Long: How the CCP Purges Its Generals—and Why the Pattern Still Matters
By Fu Longshan In official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mythology, He Long occupies a sanctified...