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In this Kings and Generals animated documentary, we explore the extraordinary life of Puyi, the last emperor of China. From his brief reign under the Qing dynasty and the 1911 Revolution to his role ...
The Chinese president’s concept of power was forged by the suffering of his revolutionary father, Xi Zhongxun.
Linda Jaivin’s epic tale of China’s Cultural Revolution brings its players to life – and illustrates the massive scale of its ...
In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama left the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in the dead of night to flee from Mao Zedong’s Communist regime. Over the course of the next seven decades, the Dalai Lama has ...
Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao.
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 ...
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.
Chinese foreign affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning invoked Mao Zedong in a video posted to social media amid trade escalations between the U.S. and China.
The war of words and trade between Washington and Beijing took a fresh turn Thursday when a Chinese diplomat shared a video of Mao Zedong.
As a student leader of the militant Red Guards, Song Binbin was selected to pin an armband around the sleeve of Mao Zedong in a ceremony in 1966 in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Apic/Getty Images ...
After Mao’s death she travelled to the United States, completing a Master’s degree in geochemistry at Boston University followed by a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.