China was hermetically closed for decades after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Even today, access to primary sources, not least party archives, remains haphazard at best. The party ...

After the second world war, Soviet intervention transformed China’s Communist Party from a battered, marginalised guerrilla force into a heavily armed military machine. Read histories approved by the ...

(Warning: Inside Baseball on Chinese politics: those not interested should change channels now) There is increasing speculation ahead of the opening of the 17th Communist Party National Conference on ...

State accounts of the triumph of the Chinese Communist Party have whitewashed the atrocities that were central to Mao’s rise to power.

In one of the most dramatic political shake-ups in decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expelled nine of its most senior military generals. China’s Ministry of Defense made the announcement, ...

It’s the red dawn of a new day. After a four-decade-long break, the Communist Party USA has picked up the hammer and sickle to resume the glorious struggle of electoral politics — and they’re already ...