Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

The 1949 Chinese Revolution was a monumental event in world ... socially and culturally backward and oppressive. The Chinese Communist Party regime headed by Mao Tse-Tung implemented bourgeois ...

China’s Cultural Revolution began 50 years ago this week. In the late Fifties, China’s Communist-in-chief, Chairman Mao, began “The Great Leap Forward,” a Communist economic reform that is ...

The nuclear arms race of the 1950s and 60s between communist and capitalist camps terrified the world. It brought the threat of mutually-assured destruction. Using nuclear weapons would guarantee ...

In China, the nationalist movement took the form of a peasant uprising under the direct leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. After its disastrous defeat in 1927, the Communist Party ...