[The young Xi] read the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, famous quotes from Mao ... formative chapter for Xi came with the collapse of communism in the Soviet bloc. His assessment was that Moscow ...

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 ...

Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chai Jing has revisited and updated her iconic 2012 interview with Gao ...

Three times American presidents have saved communism in China. Richard Nixon did that in 1972, near the end of Mao Zedong’s decade-long Cultural Revolution, essentially a civil war that almost ...

What’s particularly important here is that the title refers to former Chinese leader Mao Zedong’s 1938 essay On Protracted War, a piece of writing that set out Mao’s approach to combating ...

to burnish his Marxist credentials into something called “Mao Zedong Thought” by reading orthodox Stalinist primers that had recently been translated into Chinese. Two main things, which shaped his ...

Mao Zedong, who led China’s one-party state after World War II, oversaw a fraught and fatal attempt to industrialize the country, known as the Great Leap Forward. His regime was infamous for its ...

What had happened in that intervening decade was the Cultural Revolution, when Mao Zedong effectively declared war on China’s educated elites. The Communist Party chairman argued that expertise ...

In 2015, citizens in Henan Province erected a 120-foot gold statue of Mao Zedong, which was swiftly torn down on government ... and everyday life under 'Communism with Chinese characteristics'.

On state and social media, it posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted "imperialists," and sent a message: capitulation to bullies is dangerous, and it wouldn't back down. But behind closed doors ...