In Mao Zedong’s China, millions of innocent men, women, and children were torn from their homes and imprisoned in the Laogai system - a network of forced labor camps shrouded in secrecy. Here ...

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary ...

The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in 1953 when the U.S. and China were on opposite sides of the Korean War.

Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech remembering Mao Zedong to push a framework the current leader rolled out recently to counter the West’s capitalist model.. The “central task” of ...

A month later, Xi Jinping, who had just turned 23, visited his father, who made him recite two of Mao Zedong’s famous speeches from memory: “On Contradiction” and “On Practice.” ...

Henry Kissinger said Mao Zedong was the "most dangerous" leader he met during his political career. Kissinger cited the 90 million deaths under Mao's regime. Kissinger played a pivotal role in ...

A lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, Chinese ...

Red Guards hold aloft booklets containing the writings of Mao Zedong as they lead a demonstration of some 200,000 people in front of the Soviet Embassy in Beijing on August 29, 1966. AP.

At 93, the memoirist Yuan-tsung Chen hopes that her recollections of China’s tumultuous past will help the country confront its historical wrongs — and avoid repeating them.

A prominent Chinese artist known for his scathing political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, according to his brother and artistic partner. Gao Zhen ...

O ver the past decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has initiated a series of hardline moves that hark back to PRC founder Mao Zedong. He justified China’s Zero COVID strategy with Mao’s ...

The print by the renowned pop artist depicts Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese communist revolution. Warhol signed the print in 1972 and it's numbered 187 of 250.