Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

Scholars and commentators in both the US and China are drawing comparisons between the early months of President Donald Trump ...

Mao Zedong—the chairman himself—is visibly ailing. ... but the drip-drip-drip of positive opinion that came in as the months went by kept my head mostly above water.

Former communist dictator, Mao Zedong’s portrait on the Chinese currency shows that "leftists murderers seem to get a pass" for their crimes, China expert Gordon Chang said. "If Germany put ...

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During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary ...

A Chinese immigrant who witnessed Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution warned against the indoctrination of children in K-12 schools with neo-Marxist ideologies such as critical race theory and The ...

A survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution says she is experiencing post-traumatic stress witnessing history repeat itself on college campuses as "Marxist hordes" have taken over in anti-American and ...

Red Guards hold aloft booklets containing the writings of Mao Zedong as they lead a demonstration of some 200,000 people in front of the Soviet Embassy in Beijing on August 29, 1966. AP.

Mao is widely regarded today in the West as, at best, a flawed patriot and, at worst, a brutal dictator. The Great Leap Forward of 1958 to 1962, his misguided attempt at rapid industrialization ...