As China gears up for Mao Zedong’s lavish 120th birthday anniversary celebrations, ... While the Hunan museum emphasizes Mao’s early frugality, others are being built to showcase wealth.

A museum to exhibit the belongings of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong is to be built in his hometown. The huge project in Shaoshan, a town in Hunan Province where Mao was born and grew up, will ...

His hair is grasped tightly in a Red Guard's fist and he is being denounced during the Cultural Revolution, the ideological frenzy which destroyed millions of lives in China between 1966 and 1976.

Souvenir plates with images of China's Mao Zedong (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) in Beijing, China in 2017 [Tyrone Siu/Reuters] By Kevin Doyle Published On 17 Oct 2022 17 Oct 2022 ...

The museum was re-established in Taiwan in 1965 after the Republic of China government lost a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists and fled to the island in 1949, taking with them thousands of ...

Its current narrative is enshrined in the National Museum of China. It stands in Tiananmen Square, directly opposite the Great Hall of the People, where grand political ceremonies are held; across ...

Antiquity in revolution: the Shanghai Museum -- Conclusion Summary How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949 ...

Mao Zedong, whose leadership of China’s Communist Party was cemented during the Long March, keeps watch over elderly patrons at a teahouse in Pengzhen. As the country’s population rapidly ages ...