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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In her speech last June, after she joined the Obama White House, Ms. Dunn said the "two people I turn to most" were Mother Teresa and Mao Tse-Tung. She barely discussed the late nun, but waxed at ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mao is said to have told a Yugoslav visitor to Peking in 1957, "We have a very large territory and a big population. Atomic bombs could not kill all of us." "What if they killed 300 million of us?