The Roots of China’s Communist Revolution
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Under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, two legal paradoxes persist that many citizens have come to accept as normal — yet they raise profound concerns upon closer examination. P...
Deng Xiaoping, who served as the Chinese Communist Party’s de facto top leader from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, is officially celebrated in the People’s Republic as the...
Step into a vanished world. A Trip Through China is a rare surviving fragment of Benjamin Brodsky’s ambitious ten-reel travelogue, filmed across China in the mid-1910s and original...
Within a year of winning China's civil war on the strength of surrender guarantees, the Party launched a quota-driven campaign to kill the soldiers who had laid down their weapons
Nearly 60 years after the Cultural Revolution began, many of the political and ideological mechanisms that fueled the movement continue to shape modern China today
A U.S. federal court in Northern California ruled on Tuesday, March 31 that the original diaries and private correspondence of Li Rui, Mao Zedong’s former secretary, will be preser...
The history of the Christian Church in mainland China since 1949 is a story characterised by times of dramatic upheaval, near destruction and martyrdom, and unexpected revival.
A firsthand witness from Anhui province identifies the specific decrees that turned crop failures into mass death
Beijing rewrote two slogans before it sealed the country – once to rewrite history, once to prewrite the future.
As China’s 'lying flat' trend gains traction among younger generations, analysts point to deeper structural pressures, from a tightening job market to shifting policy priorities, a...
On a spring morning in April 1938, Zhang Guotao stood at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Huangling, taking part in a solemn national ceremony honoring the legendary ancestor...
While it feels like the Peoples Republic of China has been around forever, it is pretty young as countries go, being founded in 1949 by Chairman Mao. In the early days of the Commu...
A Seven-Year Campaign Defeated On March 31, 2026, a U.S. federal district court in California issued a landmark ruling, concluding one of the most significant transnational legal b...
In May 2020, during the final phase leading up to the Chinese Communist Party’s anticipated announcement of “comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation,” an incongruous voice eme...
In December 1949, Mao Zedong boarded a special train and traveled for nearly two weeks across Soviet territory to reach Moscow. He had come to celebrate Stalin’s seventieth birthda...
A patriotic film backfired because a growing number of Han Chinese don’t see the Manchu-origin Qing dynasty as a part of their history.
On May 16, 1989, the five proposals that Zhao Ziyang placed before his Politburo Standing Committee colleagues set off a sequence of events that ended in tanks on the streets of Be...
Saturday, April 25, will mark 27 years since the persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline in China, began in 1999. On this occasion, an article published on Minghui.org, a...
China’s Ministry of State Security, the country’s primary spy and political policing agency, has declared that young people’s refusal to work hard is a national security threat orc...
When eight foreign flags flew over Beijing in August 1900, no one in the Forbidden City could have imagined that the city would, 125 years later, host the president of the United S...
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