The chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall stands on the former sits of Zhonghuamen Gate at the southern end of Tian’anmen Square between the Monument to the People’ s Heroes and Zhengyangmen Gate.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie is a fascinating tale about the power of literature. Two boys from ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in October 1949, promising an economic system that would muzzle capitalism's running ...

The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in 1953 when the U.S. and China were on opposite sides of the Korean War.

Forty years after his death, the legacy of Mao Zedong continues to deeply divide China. The official verdict from Beijing is that Mao was 70 percent correct and 30 percent wrong.

One of Mao's key strategies was to infiltrate the Nationalist troops and officer corps with men and women loyal to him. Many still maintain emotional or financial ties to the mainland, making the ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...

peasants and other soldiers who had gathered for a marathon conference on the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong. This was 1968, nearly two years into the Cultural Revolution, Mao's attempt to purge ...

A lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China ...

Today we're in one era, and tomorrow we'll be in a different era," President Donald Trump loudly proclaimed from the White ...