Chairman Mao's Everyman Makeover. ... which Leese argues were precursors to the Mao Mausoleum on Tiananmen Square. After Mao’s death in 1976 and well into the subsequent economic reform era, ...

Mao once told Hua, his designated successor, “with you in charge, I’m at ease.” Even with the chairman’s endorsement, Hua had to take down a group of Maoist leaders known as the “gang of ...

How Andy Warhol Explains China's Attitudes Toward Chairman Mao. ... A rumored $2.5 billion was invested in celebrations in honor of the figure whose portrait watches over Tiananmen Square and is ...

The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square ” he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit ” is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the […] ...

Tiananmen Square is ranked #6 out of 16 things to do in Beijing. ... Almost anyone can recognize the Gate of Heavenly Peace emblazoned with a portrait of Chairman Mao as a symbol of Beijing.

That power reached a zenith in 1966, when millions thronged to hear Chairman Mao incite the Cultural Revolution. Yet a decade later, Tiananmen Square became the site of mass protest against Mao's ...

Mao has been linked to the deaths of tens of millions of people in the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. Deng ordered the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989, when the army opened fire on ...

The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit -- is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the old ...

A portrait of Chinese revolutionary leader Chairman Mao Zedong gazes down on visitors to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, July 1. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press) He has been gone 32 years, yet Mao ...

Tiananmen Square was originally designed and built in 1651, but has been enlarged four times since; its current size dates from the 1950s when Chairman Mao Zedong started renovations with the aim ...

(MoneyWatch) The mass pro-democracy protests that erupted in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 did not spring from nowhere. They emerged from the period of rapid economic liberalization that ...