Mao died in 1976 and his remains are kept in a mausoleum in Tiananmen Square. Take an audiovisual tour of Mao's hometown » Soon enough, Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new paramount leader.

Behind the white marble status of Chairman Mao is an immense tapestry of China's mountains and rivers. In the Hall of Mourning, the heart of the mausoleum, lies Mao (1893-1976) in his usual gray ...

Mao would be aghast, I thought, at how utterly decadent China's cities have become. In Beijing, a short stroll from the marble and granite mausoleum where his gray-suited corpse is still on ...

The slogan—a sarcastic play on the “Great Leap Forward,” the disastrous economic and social campaign carried out from 1958 to 1962 by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong—has become a ...

below a big screen rolling through quotations from Chairman Mao. This is an underground rave in China, part of a subculture growing in hidden corners of the nation’s cities, even as its ...