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.

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 ...

PRESENTER:'There were 12 people present. 'Among them a Hunan peasant's son, Mao ZeDong.' PRESENTER:They were attracted by its anti-feudal anti-imperialist message, and also by its claim to be ...

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 ...

This event will explore the intersection of faith, dissidence, and political power across history and cultures. By comparing these two seemingly unrelated historical contexts, the discussion, ...

During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s Chinese people had to carry their Little Red Books, which contained Mao Zedong ideas about ... In the event that you consider anything on this page ...

The slogan—a sarcastic play on the “Great Leap Forward,” the disastrous economic and social campaign carried out from 1958 to ...

The statues were presented to the Prime Minister by Chinese Master Sculptor Yuan Xikun, on birth anniversaries of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mao Zedong falling sequentially on 25th and 26th ...

American military leaders, including General Douglas MacArthur, were caught off guard by the entrance of the People’s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong, into the five-month-old Korean War.

In a landmark event yesterday morning, the first statue of Mao Zedong outside of China was unveiled at the Chairman Mao Zedong High School in Otjomuise. The school, which was established in 2016 ...

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.

Its goal was to reassert Mao Zedong’s control and preserve communist ideology by purging “capitalist” and “traditional” elements from Chinese society. US President Donald Trump is in the ...