Mao Zedong was then putting China through his ... He had also sent the intellectuals—including, I assumed, the Forbidden City's guides—out to the countryside to toil with peasants in order ...

In my role as the Dalai Lama, I was trying to mitigate the disaster for my people. On October 26, 1951, approximately three thousand troops from the People’s Liberation Army’s Eighteenth Route Army ...

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural ...

By Stephen AsanteGNA Special Correspondent, Beijing, ChinaBeijing, March 23, GNA – The Chinese have a famous saying that: “He who does not reach the Great Wall is no hero.”In truism, this maxim, ...

The famous portrait of Mao Zedong still looks out over Beijing ... scenic spots and areas around the old legation quarter and Forbidden City), with a mishmash of ancient, Communist and ...