What is it he doesn’t understand? By Thomas L. Friedman The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people ...

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist, and the main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Chinese People's ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...

A note signed by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong fetches the highest selling price at £22,000. China did not want another Mao, but the party did little to stop the rise of a more powerful leader.

Thirty one years on after his death, public reverence for late Chinese leader Mao Zedong remains strong. More than 17,000 people visited the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Beijing on December 26 ...

A month later, Xi Jinping, who had just turned 23, visited his father, who made him recite two of Mao Zedong’s famous speeches from memory: “On Contradiction” and “On Practice.” ...

Less than a century ago, Mao Zedong directed similar campaigns to scrub history clean of ideas that conflicted with his party ...

In Mao Zedong’s China, millions of innocent men, women, and children were torn from their homes and imprisoned in the Laogai system - a network of forced labor camps shrouded in secrecy.

While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world.

From being 'forced' to accept railways 160 years ago, the republic is now a world-beater when it comes to this form of ...

Every lunar new year, Mr Xi would perform the traditional kowtow ritual, prostrating himself before his parent in a display of reverence ... he was purged by Mao Zedong for supporting the ...

Xu joined the PLA in 1966 just as China was plunged into the violent decade-long Cultural Revolution under Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong. After climbing the ranks, Xu wielded considerable ...