December 26, 2015 was Mao Zedong’s 122nd birthday ... The possibility of a life-changing "raspberry passport" through agricultural work is fading for many South Asian workers, forcing already ...

Among them a Hunan peasant's son, Mao ZeDong.' PRESENTER ... PRESENTER:'And it was these desperate times which shaped Mao's life 'and his career as a revolutionary. PRESENTER:'Mao was born in ...

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian provide a superb history of China’s transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution ...

In a remarkable interview, a censor for one of China’s biggest search engines described what gets deleted from the Chinese internet and how—as well as their perspective on the morality of ...

New farmers’ have made the virtues and pleasures of rural life go viral. But with any new big thing on social media, the ...

In the Chinese city of Changsha in Hunan province, a giant stone head of the country's founding father, Mao Zedong, as a young man, looms larger than life. This is a major pilgrimage site for ...

Michael Wood explores the origins and rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and the significance of Mao Zedong in the process. The Communists resisted the Nationalists by escaping to Yan'an on the ...

China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate critical facilities away from the country’s most densely populated areas to its western hinterlands. Mao’s 1964 “Third Front ...

Scholars have been fired or ‘disappeared’ as Beijing clamps down on discussion of sensitive topics, including the economy.

Exactly 75 years ago, Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China in front of crowds gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Ever since, October 1 has been a national ...

A prominent Chinese artist known for his scathing political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China ... They include “Mao’s Guilt,” a life-size bronze cast ...

Who knew that discussing Mao Zedong, the Bermuda Triangle and Kaiser Wilhelm’s pet dachshunds would prove such an aphrodisiac ...