Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker defended former Chinese leader Mao Zedong as a “great man of history,” despite presiding over millions of deaths from state-mandated policies, forced labor, ...
Mao Zedong's birthplace swiftly became a site of memory. Each year, 12 million Chinese people, from schoolchildren to ...
Fifty years after Mao Zedong's death, his image and ideas remain deeply embedded in China, where his portrait still dominates Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing and Communist Party rhetoric ...
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 ...
The post of party chairman was abolished as part of a reassessment of the excessive personality cult that developed around Mao. This Sept. 9 marks the 50th anniversary of Mao’s death. In Japan, Mao is ...
Though they might not appear to be connected at first glance, the Cuban Missile Crisis coincided with the end of the long Sino-Soviet break during the early years of the Cold War. China and the Soviet ...
SHAOSHAN, China - Fifty years after his death, diehard fans of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong lined up on Wednesday in his hometown to pay homage, holding portraits, flags and huge floral ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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