An 81-year-old man faces up to seven years in a Beijing prison due to his online criticism of the Chinese government and self-publishing the memoirs of those who suffered under Mao Zedong.

A new Community Party amendment sets President Xi Jinping's "thought" alongside Marxism-Leninism and "Mao Zedong Thought." State media say it'll help China avoid the "Tacitus Trap." ...

As a police officer, he has been to many areas of Yunnan, home to 25 ethnic minority groups, where he could often see Mao's images at local people's home, sometimes alongside their ancestors' shrines.

In Yunnan Province I walked the Burma Road, sluiced with the sweat and blood of 200,000 village laborers in World War II. ... In the age of Mao Zedong as in the era of China’s current leader, ...

China marked the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth with relative restraint in a nod to the balance President Xi Jinping must strike in using the revolutionary leader's legacy as he pursues ...

She welcomes the interrogation. Her recent memoir, “The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao’s Court,” was published last year. The book is the culmination of decades of writing and rewriting ...

The green movement’s rush to transform the energy economy while ignoring the laws of nature and economics calls to mind China’s ruinous Great Leap Forward. By 1957, Mao Zedong had grown ...