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 ...

The Cultural Revolution is no longer just an ugly chapter in China’s past. Its brutal legacy haunts President Xi Jinping’s “China dream.” ...

As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global dominance since World War II, some in China are reminded of their own ...

Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 ...

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. Xi Jinping, left, with his father, Xi ...

He made secret visits to China in 1970 and 1971, which culminated in Nixon's meeting with Mao in 1972. During his 27 years in power, Mao presided over a series of campaigns and reforms that killed ...

Mao takes his place in Chinese history alongside characters like Ying Zheng, better known as Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty (221-209 BCE), who unified China after the long ...

2. Possibly Clancy really did get the dirt on Mao from CIA HQ. But a lot of it likely came from The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1994) by Li Zhisui, for 22 years one of Mao’s personal physicians.

How do you break it to your children that they're directly descended from Mao Zedong? Slowly but surely, according to Chairman Mao's only surviving grandson, Major General Mao Xinyu.

While Mao Zedong has largely been pilloried as a murderous tyrant, private weirdo and irrational ideologue since his death in 1976, Feigon advances the minority academic opinion that Mao’s ...