Astoundingly, 40 years after his death, China still celebrates Mao Zedong. He lies permanently preserved in Tiananmen Square and is honored annually by hundreds of thousands of Chinese visitors ...

As early as 7 a.m. on Monday, the 26th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong's death, ... inside which Mao's body has been carefully preserved for people to visit and pay their respects.

Chairman Mao’s birthplace of Shaoshan is a powerful draw for anyone interested in Chinese history. Just don’t expect to find too much history there. The town in China’s central Hunan ...

30 years on, Mao's memory preserved By Diego Montero (China Daily) Updated: 2006-09-09 06:21. ... Jiangsu Province, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Chairman's death.

Andy Warhol, Mao (complete set of 10 works) (1972). Est. $800,000–1,200,000 in our Contemporary Editions sale on Artnet Auctions. Image via ARS.

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 ...

The Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Museum, which once portrayed the leader as a revolutionary icon, now presents him as an incorruptible leader. What this shift in emphasis says about contemporary China.

Li's daughter Li Nanyang, a U.S. citizen, says before he died in 2019, she gave about 40 boxes of his documents to Stanford's Hoover Institution, citing his wishes that they be preserved there ...

The macabre image of Mao certainly has a touch of fiction about it. It shows him in his declining years, his hand on his heart and his face creased with sorrow as he begs for atonement, in an act ...