Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as Mao Zedong's handpicked successor before being toppled by reformists, died Wednesday. He was 87. IE 11 is not supported.

His successors, presiding over a booming economy, refuse to answer. They let Sept. 9, the 30th anniversary of Mao's death at 82, pass quietly, without fuss or fanfare, and were expected to do the ...

Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death on Sept. 9, 1976.

Four decades after Mao Zedong died, the dictator’s life is being marked with solemn pilgrimages, online braised-pork tributes -- and little official fanfare.

Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, a day after the celebration of the birth of Christ. Today, for his hundred-and-twentieth birthday, China’s leaders once again queued up to look at their ...