In the second half of the 1950s, Mao gradually turned his back on peaceful coexistence and returned to a more radical vision of international politics based on class struggle. As recent historical ...

PRESENTER:'The Chinese Empire ended in 1911, 'and China became a republic. PRESENTER:'But the country was soon split 'between a fragile nationalist government and regional warlords. 'Rival ...

Figure caption, The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 when the Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, took control. China is a one-party state. The CCP is not elected but remains in ...

Sotheby's Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party, which defeated the Kuomintang in 1949 and founded the People's Republic of China. As a young man he worked in Peking University Library and ...

Sympathetic to the CCP’s vision of a new China, Rittenberg later joined the CCP and began working shoulder-to-shoulder with some of Communist China’s founding fathers, including Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, ...

In the first years after he took office, Xi declared war on the corruption that he feared was undermining the CCP’s ...

Located in downtown Beijing and flanking the western side of Tian'anmen Square, the landmark Great Hall of the People was dubbed the "luxurious parlor of the people" by late chairman Mao Zedong.