and his embalmed body continues to lie in state in a mausoleum on Tiananmen Square in the heart of the capital, Beijing. Mao Zedong had a notoriously chaotic personal life, marrying four times and ...

And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds.

A display at the Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Museum in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, shows the leader's personal effects and a snapshot of his bathroom at Zhongnanhai, China's leadership compound in ...

Every 10 years, Chinese leaders hold events to commemorate the birth of the late chairman Mao Zedong, who was born ... of what might be planned, Mao’s mausoleum in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square ...

Yuan’s most provocative remarks compare Mao Zedong's mausoleum at Tiananmen to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo where Japan’s war-dead are honoured, including military leaders responsible for war ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's ... a short stroll from the marble and granite mausoleum where his gray-suited corpse is still on ...

BEIJING - When China marks Chairman Mao Zedong’s 130th birth anniversary ... pinnacle of power – to pay their respects at the Mao Mausoleum on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.