Although Tiananmen Square looks like a field of concrete (which it is), you'll want to see it for the surrounding attractions: The Great Hall of the People, the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong ...

The embalmed body of Mao Zedong has been on display at his mausoleum in the center of Tiananmen Square since 1977, where people converge to pay their respects to the communist revolutionary and ...

The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of repressing dissent, perhaps most brutally during Mao Zedong’s Cultural ... in Shandong province to Tiananmen Square to advocate peacefully ...

On October 1, 1949 a grand ceremony was witnessed by 300,000 people in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square, and Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central People's Government, solemnly proclaimed the founding of ...

Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is where Chairman Mao proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949. Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong ...

Two weeks after the killing in August 1966, crowds gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where Mao spoke directly to tens ...

What was capitalism like after Mao’s death? Through rare and never-before-seen historical footage, expert interviews and eyewitness accounts of the Great Famine, Tiananmen incident, and the ...