Despite his strong anti-communist stance, Nixon’s handshake with Mao Zedong symbolized an unlikely alliance calibrated to offset Soviet power. But in Nixon’s talks with Mao, Taiwan remained a ...

Mao Zedong’s chaotic, bloody purge that killed more than two million people in revolutionary episodes of “unfathomable brutality.” Yet, President Richard Nixon was determined to improve ...

"The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in American history." Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut directing this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration ...