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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 ...
In the whirlwind flashback of Vanessa Hua’s novel “Forbidden City,” 15-year-old Mei is whisked away from her rural village in 1965 to Mao Zedong’s sumptuous residence in Beijing, taught ...
In Mao Zedong’s China, millions of innocent men, women, and children were torn from their homes and imprisoned in the Laogai system - a network of forced labor camps shrouded in secrecy. Here ...
Mao Ning shared a video of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong from 1953 during its war with the US. While sharing the video on X, Mao Ning stated, "We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations.
Ning wrote this on X while sharing a video of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong from 1953 during its war with the US. In the video posted on X, Zedong said, "As to how long this war will last, we ...
A month later, Xi Jinping, who had just turned 23, visited his father, who made him recite two of Mao Zedong’s famous speeches from memory: “On Contradiction” and “On Practice.” ...
Under the directive of Mao Tse-tung, [future Gang of Four member] Yao Wen-yuan published the essay “Criticizing the New Historical Play: The Dismissal of Hai Jui from Office” and this raised the ...
Yuan Tengfei, a 38-year old Beijing middle-school history-teacher, ... Mao Zedong, his ideological legacy, and the cultural revolution. ...