Zhao Jiuzhang, a renowned Chinese meteorologist, geophysicist, and space physicist is hailed as the ‘Father of Chinese Satellites.’ However, in the quiet of the night on October 26, 1968, this internationally acclaimed scientist took his own life at his home in Zhongguancun, Beijing. He was 61. Today, we delve into the life of Zhao Jiuzhang ...
Gao Yu, age 79, is a Chinese journalist with a conscience who dares to report the undiluted truth as she finds it. She is a long-standing newspaper reporter and online columnist. During her long career as a champion of truth and press freedom, she has been repeatedly harassed, arrested, and imprisoned by the Chinese Communist ...
Following the unleashing of the dreaded Cultural Revolution on the Chinese people in 1966, the victorious table tennis team suddenly came under attack. It was accused of being the sprout of revisionism and it was said that the seven world championship trophies won by the national table tennis team were all bourgeois titles. Rong Guotuan, ...
All Chinese people know that China’s table tennis is a superpower and holds an invincible position in world rankings. However, many people may not be aware of the tragic life and sudden disappearance of Rong Guotuan, the first table tennis world championship winner and the first world championship winner in sports after the takeover of ...
Ma Sicong talked about his tribulations and abuses during the Cultural Revolution. On May 16, 1966, the dreaded Cultural Revolution was unleashed on the Chinese people by the Despot, Mao Zedong. Central Conservatory of Music students put up posters for their Dean, Ma Sicong, at the end of May. Overnight, Ma Sicong became a target, ...
In the throes of the Cultural Revolution, the renowned Chinese musician Ma Sicong and his family fled to the United States. This story became a worldwide sensation. We explore how he escaped, why he needed to run, why he and his family stayed in a cave, and the outcome of his perilous journey — extracts ...
Mr. Yang said persecuted entrepreneurs like him are too numerous in his home province and country. The common characteristic of attacks is that they begin with heavy, underhanded threats and intimidation, and evidence is manufactured; this soon escalates into a fictitious crime. Arrests soon follow; the case is then made public to intimidate the public; ...
Mr. Yang, one of China’s highly successful entrepreneurs now living in exile, recounted how he changed his thinking from being a staunch supporter of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resolutely opposing its existence. Mr. Yang lives in Toronto, Canada. Before his exile, he was the chairman of a large and prosperous company in a ...
One fateful day in 2022, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) public security officers came pounding on Zhang Yuxuan’s door and shouted: “You know what you have done.” Then, they took him to the Public Security Bureau, asked him to sign a confession, and left him there for four or five hours before releasing him. The ‘red ...
One evening, around 9 o’clock, a young Taiwanese man named Zhang Yuxuan was scrolling through his mobile phone in his rented apartment in Shanghai when suddenly, he heard a crashing bang, and the front door was smashed open. Several public security officers of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) barged in, grabbed a hold of him, ...