Following the Communist victory in China's civil war in 1949, Mao Zedong established the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), ...

While the ruling Chinese Communist Party maintains Mao was a revolutionary hero, it publicly acknowledged after his death that his devastating Cultural Revolution was a "grave mistake" – a verdict ...

Between 1966 and 1976, Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution plunged China into a decade of political upheaval, ideological ...

BEIJING, CHINA—Tiananmen Square symbolizes modern China. The space forever will be remembered as the focus of the mass demonstrations dispersed by brute military force in 1989. Today the square is ...

Editor’s Note: Jaime’s China is a column about Chinese society and politics. Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. Now CNN’s Beijing bureau chief, he studied Chinese history at ...

Half a century after the death of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, fascination with the chairman is growing among young Chinese people.

Photographer Cristina de Middel's new book Party is meant to question the idea of political power in a playful way. In the book, de Middel has taken the original text from Chairman Mao Zedong’s Little ...

A new generation is embracing Mao's teachings to cope with modern pressures, but analysts say the trend gives Beijing reason to be wary When you are denied a pay rise, when you feel anxious about your ...

A mere days after its existence became widely known, China’s giant gold Mao Zedong statue is no more. The seated monument, which measured roughly 37 meters tall (121 feet) and cost nearly 3 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Biden used a quote from brutal Chinese dictator Mao Zedong to explain his pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate during the ...

The statue took nine months to complete and cost roughly half a million dollars. This photo taken on January 4, 2016 shows a huge statue of Chairman Mao Zedong under construction in Tongxu county in ...