Topics

Chronological Index

1. 1921–1949

   Chinese Communist Revolution

2. 1949–1953

   Land Reform and Suppression Campaigns

3. 1957

   Anti-Rightist Campaign

4. 1958–1962

   Great Leap Forward and Great Famine

   • People’s Communes

   • Great Leap Forward

   • Great Chinese Famine

   • Lushan Conference

5. 1966–1976

   Cultural Revolution

   • Red Guards

   • Struggle Sessions

   • Four Olds

   • Sent-Down Youth

   • Factional Violence

   • Persecution of Intellectuals

6. 1989

   Tiananmen Protests and Crackdown

   • 1989 Democracy Movement

   • Student Protests

   • June Fourth Crackdown

   • Arrests and Political Prosecutions

   • Tiananmen Mothers

7. Centralization and Intensified Repression

Political & Religious Persecution

• Political and Religious Campaigns

• Religious Persecution

• Christianity

• House Churches

• Catholic Church

• Falun Gong

• Political Dissidents

• Political Dissent

• Political Prisoners

• Human Rights Lawyers

• Human Rights Defenders

• Journalists and Writers

• Journalists

• Labor Activists

• Religious Communities

• Civil Society

Regional & Territorial

• Tibet

• Xinjiang

• Hong Kong

• Religious Restrictions

• Tibetan Political Prisoners

• Language and Cultural Policies

• Monastic Controls

• Political Imprisonment

• Public Demonstrations

• Political Speech

Systems & Methods of Repression

• Reeducation Through Labor

• Administrative Detention

• Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location

• Censorship

• Internet Censorship

• Mass Surveillance

• Surveillance

• Community Monitoring

• Threats and Intimidation

• Pressure on Family Members

• Detention Facilities

• Prisons

• Legal Cases

• Institutional Controls

Beyond China

• Transnational Repression

• Overseas Surveillance

• Monitoring of Students and Academic Communities

• Transnational Policing