They sit at the knotty place where history, the culture of consumption and the power of merch meet.

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a ...

Several members of the liberal media are fuming over “Real Time” host Bill Maher’s monologue recapping his dinner ...

EL PAÍS travels to the autonomous region of China, where governments and NGOs denounce the violation of rights and Beijing ...

A professor with the Yale School of Public Health claimed that Donald Trump is "destroying a generation of knowledge" just ...

Recent estimates suggest Xi Jinping’s net worth is around $1 billion. He ranks among the most powerful figures in modern ...

The US has been trying to manage China’s emergence for more than 50 years — since President Richard Nixon’s pioneering visit to Chairman Mao Zedong to “open” an isolated and impoverished ...

As Communist Party leader Mao Zedong famously said, “Women hold up half the sky”, and history keeps ... She was keen to support the vaccine programme. "In Hickey’s portrait, not only is she shown in a ...

Boardman added her decades-old business is in danger of "not recovering" as a result of the president's comments. "I completed the portrait accurately, without 'purposeful distortion,' political bias, ...

Chairman Mao Zedong, China’s despot ruler; and Marie Antoinette, the 18 th-century queen who told the French to eat cake. Meanwhile, Gladiator, Director Ridley Scott’s Academy Award-winning ...