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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 ...

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was both a product and a part of the revolutionary change in 20th-century China. He was born December 26, 1893, in the small village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. Although he ...

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

Mao Zedong, the autodidact son of well-to-do peasants ... The book’s emphasis — around 60 per cent of the text — is on the post-1949 period, or the final twenty-seven years of Zhou’s life. Chen begins ...

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 ...