China’s iconic Great Wall, actually a network of fortifications ... have vanished during the past half century or so. Mao Zedong himself encouraged destruction of parts of the wall and reuse ...

the Chinese government did quite a bit of damage to the Great Wall. Mao Zedong and the Red Guard recognized the wall as little more than a relic whose materials would better serve in the ...

Andy Warhol's image of Mao Zedong and the official portrait of the former leader. [China Daily] "This work has the most prestigious provenance, staggering wall-power and is literally an icon of ...

Mao Zedong, whose leadership of China’s Communist ... “None can claim greatness without surmounting the Great Wall’s majestic heights,” wrote Mao near the end of the Long March in 1935.

Mao Zedong died in the early hours of Sept ... Heralded as “the people’s great savior” and “the reddest reddest red sun in our heart,” Mao occupied a godlike status that had been ...

The green movement’s rush to transform the energy economy while ignoring the laws of nature and economics calls to mind China’s ruinous Great Leap Forward. By 1957, Mao Zedong had grown ...

if there is "great disorder under Heaven, the situation is excellent." Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in October ...

Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions ... him the “people’s leader” — a near identical title to “great leader” Mao. At the recently concluded party congress ...