In February 1957, Mao Zedong delivered a speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People," formulating the theory of correctly distinguishing and handling the two types of ...

In the Feb. 7, 1953 speech at the Fourth Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Mao Zedong vowed to keep fighting the Korean War until ...

A charismatic leader comes to power on a wave of populist rage against elites, dismissive of pesky ideas about civil ...

The spring of 1967 saw the full flourishing of Mao’s personality cult. Larger-than-life statues of the Great Helmsman sprang ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's ... But as the King of Kitsch once noted in a speech to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing ... Five months after Mao’s speech the war would end with an armistice that has left the Korean Peninsula divided to this day.