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 ...

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 ...

Mao Zedong. 27 May 2025. After decades of bloodshed, is India winning its war against Maoists? The Maoist insurgency has claimed nearly 12,000 lives in India since 2000. 27 May 2025. Asia.

"Mao Zedong was a great man. When I saw him, I was shaken to tears," said Gao Fei, a 26-year-old girl from the eastern Province of Shandong. Larif Hajer and her husband Ridha, from Tunisia, have ...

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.” ...

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. Here ...

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

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

According to a well-known anecdote, when former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1971 to prepare for the Richard Nixon–Mao Zedong summit, Kissinger asked ...

The Party’s Interests Come First. By Joseph Torigian. Stanford University Press; 718 pages; $50 and £41. B Y THE TIME Xi Zhongxun was in his 70s, his teeth were failing him. Tough, chewy foods ...

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