D uring the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary ...

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 ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

Its not the traditional method, Tsering said.The golden urn process was introduced in 1793 for selecting reincarnations of the Dalai Lama by drawing lots or tally sticks from a golden urn.His highness ...

‘Untouchable’: How Xi Jinping became more powerful than Mao Zedong. Peter Hartcher Political and international editor. October 25, 2022 — 5.00am. October 25, 2022 — 5.00am. Save.

Mao Zedong, whose leadership of China’s Communist Party was cemented during the Long March, keeps watch over elderly patrons at a teahouse in Pengzhen. As the country’s population rapidly ages ...

They’d be wise to learn from China’s tragic experience. ... Megalomaniac dictator Mao Zedong saw the bureaucrats in his government as obstacles to building a socialist worker’s paradise.

In the Feb. 7, 1953 speech at the Fourth Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Mao Zedong vowed to keep fighting the Korean War until ...