III. DISASTER 1949-1962

The Prelude to the Disaster Unfolds (2)
Chapter 01 Jiang Qing at the beginning of her career, inciting class struggle 1951-1956
Chapter 02 Gao Gang incident 1954
Chapter 03 Five horses go to Beijing, Gao’s horse arrives first
Chapter 04 Not only did they purge Gao Gang, but they also suppressed Liu Shaoqi
Chapter 05 Gao Gang committed suicide and lost his spare tire
Chapter 06 I set up the Constitution as a pendulum 1954
Chapter 07 Criticism of Hu Shih’s Movement 1954
Chapter 08 Hu Feng counter-revolutionary group injustice case 1955
Chapter 09 Pan Hannian wrongful case 1955
Chapter 10 The wrongful case of Ding Ling and Chen Qixia’s anti-party activities 1955
Chapter 11 Anti-Rightist Campaign 1955-1956
Chapter 12 Forced unified purchase and sale, the peasants began to starve 1955
Chapter 13 15-year collectivization plan enforced with a compulsory one-year deadline 1955-1956
Chapter 14 I don’t care about the death of 400 million compatriots advocating the early fighting of World War III 1955
Chapter 15 Capitalists celebrate Communist Party euthanasia 1956
Chapter 16 From criticism of the cult of the individual to the “8th Congress” 1956
Chapter 17 The time had come for me to become the Communist King of the World 1956-1957

Anti-Rightist Great Leap Forward Famine Rightist Great Leap Forward Famine
Chapter 18 Anti-Rightist Movement 1957
Chapter 19 Moscow Communist International Congress 1957
Chapter 20 The Great Leap Forward Great Disaster 1958
Chapter 21 Khrushchev’s Second Visit to China 1958
Chapter 22 Tibetan Disaster Dalai Exodus 1959
Chapter 23 Wang Guangmei accompanies swimming 1959
Chapter 24 The Lushan Conference purged Peng Dehuai 1959
Chapter 25 Khrushchev’s third visit to China 1959
Chapter 26 I don’t care The Great Famine 1959-1961
Chapter 27 The vast palace villa complex 1961
Chapter 28 Hunan beauty triggers scandal, I am forced to retire 1960
Chapter 29 Liu Shaoqi returned to Hunan to investigate 1961
Chapter 30 Public canteen I grabbed the right to eat 1961
Chapter 31 Household Responsibility System saves farmers’ lives 1961
Chapter 32 The lowest and darkest period 1961
Chapter 33 Beijing wants to become the center of the world revolution 1960
Chapter 34 Successor: Liu Shaoqi? Lin Biao? 1960-1965
Chapter 35 The purge of Panchen 1962
Chapter 36 The 7,000 people assembly called two hail 1962

IV Catastrophe 1962-1976
Recapturing the Class Struggle
Chapter 37 Recapturing the Class Struggle 1962
Chapter 38 Learning from Lei Feng 1963
Chapter 39 Shangguan Yunzhu and Jiang Qing September 1963
Chapter 40 Spring Festival masquerade ball 1964
Chapter 41 Jiang Qing’s first report on the success of the propaganda model opera 1964
Chapter 42 The Four Clean-up Campaigns 1963-1965
Chapter 43 China and the Soviet Union openly broke up 1963-1964
Chapter 44 The Japanese Imperial Army is a great benefactor 1964
Chapter 45 Lin Biao created a small Mao’s Quotes create momentum for me 1964
Chapter 46 Radicalize the Vietnam War 1964
Chapter 47 Huge waste of Third Front construction 1964-1976
Chapter 48 Atomic Bomb Explosion 1964
Chapter 49 Again advocating a world war 1965
Chapter 50 Whole country learning Dazhai 1965
Chapter 51 Vetoed the opening of the 9th congress in 1965
Chapter 52 The Great Communist Defeat in Indonesia 1965
Chapter 53 Without the Chinese Communist Party, there would be no Cambodia 1965
Chapter 54 Conspiracy to launch the Cultural Revolution 1965
Chapter 55 February mutiny and Lin Biao military control 1966
Chapter 56 Crackdown on Peng (Zhen), Luo (Ruiqing), Lu (Dingyi), Yang (Shangkun) 1966

The final fight of the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 57 The official launch of the Cultural Revolution May Conference 1966
Chapter 58 Stopping the construction of the Beijing subway to aid North Korea 1966
Chapter 59 August meeting Lin Biao replacing Liu Shaoqi 1966
Chapter 60 The August Red Storm of Terror 1966
Chapter 61 Smashing Confucius destroyed ancestors 1966
Chapter 62 Receiving 12 million Red Guards 1966
Chapter 63 Birthday banquet promoting a full-scale civil war 1966
Chapter 64 Deception leads to the capture of Wang Guangmei, overthrowing Liu Shaoqi 1967
Chapter 65 Final Conversation with Liu Shaoqi 1967
Chapter 66 Struggle session against Liu Shaoqi 1967
Chapter 67 Topple Tao Zhu and the royalist faction 1967
Chapter 68 January Storm: Comprehensive Seizure of Power 1967
Chapter 69 Military leaders form alliances with notorious gangs to advise against actions 1967
Chapter 70 The February counter-current protest against Huairen Hall 1967
Chapter 71 The army is also divided into two factions 1966-1967
Chapter 72 Siege of Zhou Enlai 1967
Chapter 73 I faced a dangerous situation during the Wuhan mutiny 1967
Chapter 74 Commander Xu led the troops to set up a fortress to resist 1967
Chapter 75 Lin Biao led the million people to the Tiananmen Conference 1967
Chapter 76 Topple Yang Chengwu, the successor of Lin Biao 1968
Chapter 77 Martial fighting escalated to full-scale civil war 1967-1968
Chapter 78 Cultural Revolution Massacre 1967-1968
Chapter 79 The Shadian Tragedy Anti-Religion and Anti-Muslim 1968
Chapter 80 Military propaganda team military control dropped the rebellion bands 1968
Chapter 81 Expelling the youth to the countryside 1968
Chapter 82 Clearing the ranks of class struggle, resulting in hundreds of millions of people suffered 1968-1969
Chapter 83 Many highly respected teachers were persecuted and forced to commit suicide
Chapter 84 The mass arrest of counter-revolutionaries and the killing of political prisoners 1970
Chapter 85 A large number of resisters were robbed and executed
Chapter 86 Ideological Prinsoner Yu Luoke 1970
Chapter 87 Arresting the May 16th Revolts 1967-1972

Topple Lin Biao, Overthrow Everything
Chapter 88 Mao and Lin’s contradictions exposed at the Ninth Congress Meeting 1969
Chapter 89 Lushan Conference gave up Chen Boda 1970
Chapter 90 Create an air crash to assassinate Zhou Enlai 1970
Chapter 91 Pressured Lin Biao to flee during my southern tour, resulting in his fatal plane crash 1971
Chapter 92 Lin Biao fell to his death emotionally out of control and asked for two pistols
Chapter 93 Nixon saved me from breaking the ice in Sino-US relations 1972
Chapter 94 Jiang Qing, “The Empress of the Red Capital” Events 1972-1973
Chapter 95 Zhou Enlai refused to assist Jiang Qing to take over 1972
Chapter 96 Criticism of Zhou Enlai 1972-1973
Chapter 97 Deng Xiaoping’s Return and Confinement 1973-1976
Chapter 98 Kang Sheng named Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao as traitors in 1975

The End is Near
Chapter 99 I have a strange and terminal decease 1974
Chapter 100 Henan dam collapse triggered devastating flood, causing 240,000 fatalities
Chapter 101 A Family That Doesn’t Look Like a Family 1976
Chapter 102 My fear of loneliness
Chapter 103 Zhang Yufeng is the most intimate
Chapter 104 Final year struggle 1976
Chapter 105 The reactions of the people 1976
Chapter 106 The Building of Memorial Hall and the Bombing of the Crystal Coffin 1977-1979

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