News about Mao Zedong, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

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 ...

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

As artist Maggie Wong talks about her early childhood in Oakland, California, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she pauses. Stopping halfway through a sentence describing the group to which her ...

From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily -- and increasingly intimate -- contact with Mao and ...

Left-leaning Governments, especially but not only in the global South, which feel compelled to adopt severe IMF stabilisation ...