Dive deep into the harrowing history of Mao Zedong's Laogai system, where millions endured forced labor, torture, and ...

During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s Chinese people had to carry their Little Red Books, which contained Mao Zedong ideas about Communism. The Cultural Revolution was led by Mao to turn ...

PRESENTER:'The Chinese Empire ended in 1911, 'and China became a republic. PRESENTER:'But the country was soon split 'between a fragile nationalist government and regional warlords. 'Rival ...

Sotheby's Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party, which defeated the Kuomintang in 1949 and founded the People's Republic of China. As a young man he worked in Peking University Library and ...