Independent独立
Judgemental 有判断
中国
制躁Making sense of Chinese communism
制躁Making sense of Chinese communism
Culture. Power. History.文化 · 权力 · 历史
Wade in China
Data story 数据故事 · Land reform 1947 to 1952
How many died?
Six historians. Six numbers. A hundred thousand to five million. Nobody has the full archive.
Every figure links to its source, and every source is disclosed: who, what it rests on, who funds them.
SourceKind
History 历史 / Communism in China177 EVENTS · 7 LANES · 1848 TO NOW
From the Manifesto to now. Moscow, the Party, the wars, the campaigns. And what they did to people.
Outside China 中国以外Party 党内决定War 战争与武力Campaigns 运动
Consequences 后果Economy 经济与日常Ideas 思想与文化▶ Play the film
Now 当下History
正在成为历史
History
to be.
正在成为历史What happens today, logged the same way: dated, sourced, put on the line it extends.
- 2026The Fifteenth Five-Year PlanPartysupported
- 2026Jimmy Lai sentenced to twenty yearsConsequencessupported
- 2026Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli under investigationWarsupported
- 2025Justice Mission 2025 exercise around TaiwanWarsupported
- 2025The tariff war with the United StatesOutside Chinasupported
- 2025He Weidong disappears from public viewWardocumented
- 2024The retirement age raisedEconomydocumented
Essays 文章
Columns and essays, each with its audio edition- What's Going On?The Quiet Migration: Why People Run28 essays · Explore →
- Right and WrongThe Arithmetic of Guilt: When Killing Became a Percentage33 essays · Explore →
- Power GamesWhy Power Needs You to Lie70 essays · Explore →
- China ActuallyThe Hunger Nobody Could Name: Granaries Full and Roadsides Littered with the Dead44 essays · Explore →
- Good thingsWhat the Flame Could Not Burn12 essays · Explore →
Listen 收听 · The podcast
Every essay, read aloud.
The evidence 证据
Every fact has a source.
Or it says unknown
Each fact sits in the database with its source, its page and a link you can open. A contested number shows every named position.
EstablishedSupportedDocumentedContestedUnknown