Mao Tse-tung would certainly claim that his life was meaningless apart from the Chinese Communist Party. In attempting to portray the man, one can ... of a group of young men who were patriotic ...

Sotheby's Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party, which defeated the Kuomintang in 1949 and founded the People's Republic of China. As a young man he worked in Peking University Library and ...

In the Chinese city of Changsha in Hunan province, a giant stone head of the country's founding father, Mao Zedong, as a young man, looms larger than life. This is a major pilgrimage site for ...