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Linda Jaivin’s epic tale of China’s Cultural Revolution brings its players to life – and illustrates the massive scale of its ...
To His Excellency Chairman Mao Tse-Tung from Richard Nixon President of the United States, February 1972 National Museum of American History ...
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 ...
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.
Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech remembering Mao Zedong to push a framework the current leader rolled out recently to counter the West’s capitalist model.
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 ...
Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day ...
Half a century ago, Richard Nixon sought to split China from Russia. Fifty years later, President Trump is doing the reverse. He is trying to split Russia from China. Then and now, each man’s ...
A prominent Chinese artist known for his political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, after police raided his art studio near Beijing.
Andrea Benvenuti’s ‘Nehru’s Bandung’ explores a neglected aspect of India’s Cold War diplomacy, starting with Jawaharlal Nehru and Congress’ role in organising the 1955 Bandung Conference.
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.