political persecution

For 21 years, Jiang Wen worked as a chef in Yantai, a coastal city in China’s Shandong Province, …

In the spring of 1949, Chinese legal scholar Yang Zhaolong helped secure the release of an estimated 10,000 …

When Peking Opera master Zhou Xinfang was released from detention in 1969, his wife, Qiu Lilin, was no …

“Of the six children in our family, five escaped the decade of catastrophe,” Zhou Caici recalled during a …

Editor’s note: This first-person essay was originally written by Liu Leyuan (劉樂園) and published in Chinese by The …

Many people believe death is the greatest punishment that can be inflicted on a person. But there may …

Nearly half a century later, Kent Wong can still clearly describe the five routes people used to escape …

In modern Chinese history, some events have been deliberately erased by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because they …

Growing up under China’s information control and state-run education, a young woman named Hanly found the courage to …

In the mid-20th century, two gifted pianists from Shanghai rose to international acclaim — Fu Cong (also known …