Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins. By Andrew Higgins and ...

Historian Frank Dikötter of the University of Hong Kong argues there is more continuity than change in China after Mao Zedong, and he challenges the common perception of Deng Xiaoping as an ...

Though the name of Mao Zedong still has resonance around the world, the man who has inherited the mantle of Chinese hero is Deng Xiaoping. While Mao is now mainly associated with the idea of ...