A menu signed by Mao Zedong and other officials was sold for $275,000 on Wednesday. It was from 1956, and for the first state banquet hosting Pakistan's then-Prime Minister. Here's what was served ...

Mao Zedong is still highly respected by many Chinese people China's former communist leader and revolutionary hero Mao Zedong amassed a fortune from book royalties. Mao persecuted thousands of writers ...

In the whirlwind flashback of Vanessa Hua’s novel “Forbidden City,” 15-year-old Mei is whisked away from her rural village in 1965 to Mao Zedong’s sumptuous residence in Beijing ...

But living in a village during the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong’s calamitous attempt ... Crops had been destroyed, wooded areas replaced with tree stumps. The land, she wrote, was like ...