After the 1989 Tiananmen Incident, Chinese political struggles became milder and more mundane. Members of the Politburo and politicians of higher rank rarely were toppled (except for Chen Liangyu in 2006) and ideology seldom triggered significant rifts. Bo Xilai changed all that. He was a Politburo member and a favored candidate for a spot on the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee when he was pulled down dramatically in 2012. His radical Maoist movement in Chongqing, where he was Communist Party Chief, sparked a red fervor with his throwback policies and disturbed the whole of Chinese political and economic society. Some Politburo Standing Committee members went to Chongqing and endorsed Bo’s venture while others refused to talk about it and warned of impending disaster. Quickly, an unprecedented division among China’s top leaders materialized. Even today, in front of the court where Bo is being tried in Jinan, Shandong province, in Eastern China, both supporters and detractors gathered en masse. He has divided the nation. In the official charges, Bo is painted as a commonplace corrupted and discredited official. This is not a balanced view. The deeper impact Bo Xilai will have on China will continue for some time. To understand better Bo’s place in modern Chinese history, I spoke with Pin Ho, founder and CEO of the Mirror Media Group and co-author with Huang Wenguang of a new book about Bo Xilai called