In 1991, fifteen years after Mao Zedong’s death, I met the Great Helmsman for the first time. It was not the most dignified of encounters. At the time, I knew his face better than that of my own ...

HONG KONG Mao Zedong's grandson just can't catch a break. The most-mocked man at China's annual rubber-stamp congress--which is wrapping up this week in Beijing--was in some respects also its most ...

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They're rehearsing the fireworks in preparation for the opening of the Beijing Olympics which debut later this week. But behind the scenes, complaints continue about the blocking of some Internet ...

SHAOSHAN, CHINA — LIKE visitors at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Va., people come to Shaoshan village deep in the heart of China to remember and teach their children about their national ...

A display at the Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Museum in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, shows the leader's personal effects and a snapshot of his bathroom at Zhongnanhai, China's leadership compound in ...

BEIJING — It happens every year, under cover of darkness, in the waning days of September. The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and ...

Mao Zedong died in the early hours of Sept. 9, 1976. He had led the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than four decades and served as head of state since the establishment of the People’s ...

Lord Acton, the British historian, said: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Two men in the 20th century fit that description: Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. A startling ...

WHEN a man has identified himself with a cause for the greater part of his adult life, that cause becomes part of his personality. Mao Tse-tung would certainly claim that his life was meaningless ...

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