Editor's note: Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969) was once China's second most powerful leader. He rose to prominence through the leading workers' movement in the fledging days of the Communist Party of China ...

Liu Shaoqi was a revolutionary, statesman, and theorist. He was once chairman of the People's Republic of China from April, 1959 to October, 1968, during which he led economic construction and ...

FILE - This Feb. 29, 1980 file photo shows Liu Shaoqi. Once considered the anointed successor to communist leader Mao Zedong, Liu was swept from power at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

A new documentary series portraying Mao Zedong’s right-hand man, Liu Shaoqi, will begin shooting on Wednesday, official media reported. The former No 2 leader of China under Mao – and ...

In 1962, Chinese President Liu Shaoqi warned Mao Zedong: "History will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalization will also be memorialized!" ...

General Liu Yuan, the fourth son of the late president Liu Shaoqi, has become a strong contender for a top Central Military Commission (CMC) post after being appointed a political commissar of the ...

But Yao’s true target in that instance was Liu Shaoqi, China’s head of state, who, along with Deng Xiaoping, the Party’s secretary-general, was seen as something of a reformer.

Liu Shaoqi, one of Mao’s designated successors, died on a prison floor in his own filth. Another, Lin Biao, perished in a plane crash fleeing China.

Founder Mao Zedong's first anointed successor, Liu Shaoqi, was eventually purged during the Cultural Revolution and died in prison in 1969. His next choice, Defense Minister Lin Biao, ...