Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro paid tribute to Mao Zedong at the late Chinese leader's mausoleum on Friday before overseeing energy and gold mining deals as he seeks Beijing's help to bolster ...

1 / 5 | In November 1965, a review of a play about a Ming dynasty official who criticised the emperor, titled “Hai Rui Dismissed From Office”, was seen as a spark for the Cultural Revolution ...

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 ...

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day ...

Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chai Jing has revisited and updated her iconic 2012 interview with Gao ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

What’s particularly important here is that the title refers to former Chinese leader Mao Zedong’s 1938 essay On Protracted War, a piece of writing that set out Mao’s approach to combating ...

NEW YORK: Andy Warhol's iconic image of Mao Zedong, considered one of his most sensational pieces of the 1970s, is being offered for sale by the Swiss-based Daros Collection, owner of one of the ...

What had happened in that intervening decade was the Cultural Revolution, when Mao Zedong effectively declared war on China’s educated elites. The Communist Party chairman argued that expertise ...

Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, insurgents have over the decades launched attacks on government forces in an attempt to overthrow the state and, they say, usher in a classless ...

to burnish his Marxist credentials into something called “Mao Zedong Thought” by reading orthodox Stalinist primers that had recently been translated into Chinese. Two main things, which shaped his ...