Former communist dictator, Mao Zedong’s portrait on the Chinese currency shows that "leftists murderers seem to get a pass" for their crimes, China expert Gordon Chang said. "If Germany put Hitler on ...
Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from the new, "Mao’s America: A Survivor's Warning," by Xi Van Fleet. The year 2020 was a watershed moment in American history. The outbreak of a pandemic brought ...
In 1991, fifteen years after Mao Zedong’s death, I met the Great Helmsman for the first time. It was not the most dignified of encounters. At the time, I knew his face better than that of my own ...
HONG KONG Mao Zedong's grandson just can't catch a break. The most-mocked man at China's annual rubber-stamp congress--which is wrapping up this week in Beijing--was in some respects also its most ...
IN THE HEYDAY OF Mao Zedong the People's Republic may have been a poor and joyless place for most Chinese, but according to a new biography, Mao himself had a ball. The Private Life of Chairman Mao ...
Reporting from Beijing — For many Chinese, he’s a curious conundrum, an emerging national figure with some serious public relations issues. The only grandson of Mao Tse-tung, the Great Helmsman ...
BEIJING — It happens every year, under cover of darkness, in the waning days of September. The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and ...
A new look at the legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal killers. At the time, Snow was thirty-two years old. Born in Kansas City, he had gone to China soon after he graduated from the ...
A MERE 18 years after the death of Mao Zedong, it was possible for a notable Sinologist to give his book on Chinese reforms the title of “Burying Mao”. And who was to quibble? The point of all the ...