Seduced by Mao Zedong: Novel imagines one of his teenage lovers, navigating communist treachery and the Cultural Revolution In a new book by East Bay author Vanessa Hua, a peasant girl travels to ...

Mao Zedong at a banquet in 1956, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1957. Contributor/Bettmann via Getty Images, and J. Wilds/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 2023-12-08T03:33:31Z ...

Known around the world as Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong led the bloody two-decade-long revolution that overthrew Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and established the People's Republic of China in 1949.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In 1949, when the new republic was founded, China was a poor and weak agricultural country. Thanks to Mao Zedong and his comrades who were, at the very beginning of the new republic, all clear of the ...

The green movement’s rush to transform the energy economy while ignoring the laws of nature and economics calls to mind China’s ruinous Great Leap Forward. By 1957, Mao Zedong had grown ...

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.