Souvenirs featuring portraits of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong and China’s President Xi Jinping. REUTERS. The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political purge and persecution of millions ...

“He’s related to Chairman Mao,” said the 68-year-old Hong. “He’s earned his connections.” Not far away, office worker Ji Qin shook her head in disagreement.

In the name of Chairman Mao we promise all dishes on the menu are half-price, ... "We painted the walls with paint mixed with straw to make them look old," said a waiter in a Red Army uniform.

When he was in power, propaganda posters depicted Mao Zedong’s smiling face as “the red sun in the center of our hearts.” In the late 1980s and early ’90s, imbued with a sort of nostalgia ...

“Chairman Mao is a military man, not an ordinary person.” Their investment has been more than recouped, however, by the 40 other statues bought by individuals for $25,000 each.

In Chairman Mao’s home town, ‘socialist core values’ and selfie sticks galore. March 25, 2016. Fireworks explode above a square as nearly 100,000 people gathered in 2014 to celebrate the ...

Many of us are old enough to remember the photographs of the “Chinese masses” all dressed alike, in the style of Chairman Mao. Those days are gone. China is rapidly on its way to becoming a ...

After Mao was expelled by tutor no. 4, in 1907, his father stopped paying his son's tuition fees and the thirteen-year-old boy had to become a full-time peasant.

"He will be an example not only for me, but all future generations in my family," says Mao Anping, who is a nephew of the late chairman and lives in an old house in the village after retiring from ...

Chairman Mao's Favourite Pork is a hot-pot of fatty pig's knuckle in a spicy red soup with a sweet aftertaste. It's the house specialty at a restaurant dedicated to China's former supreme leader ...

Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, a day after the celebration of the birth of Christ. Today, for his hundred-and-twentieth birthday, China’s leaders once again queued up to look at their ...