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 ...

The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million—the population of California. ... And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party.

Published Oct 21, 2009 at 10:21 AM EDT Updated May 19, 2010 at 9:13 AM EDT. By Eve Conant . FOLLOW ...

Mao Zedong is dead in China, but the Great Helmsman is alive and kicking in Nepal. What's more, the Himalayan Maoists have come to power not with the barrel of ...

Mao’s oldest son wound up as one of the dead. An armistice was achieved in Korea only after Stalin died in 1953 and Mao, after nearly 450,000 Chinese casualties, felt free enough to bring the ...

News about Mao Zedong, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ... A popular chef’s video was attacked as a jab at Mao Zedong’s dead son.

BEIJING—Five years after becoming China’s leader, Xi Jinping has been granted power unmatched in recent decades and a stature on par with that of Chairman Mao Zedong. China’s Communist Party ...

A survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution says she is experiencing post-traumatic stress witnessing history repeat itself on college campuses as "Marxist hordes" have taken over in anti-American and ...

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 ...

Praised by Mao, Ms. Song, at 19, became a kind of celebrity in China. Image Ms. Song, center, paid respects to a bust of Bian Zhongyun, the head of a girls high school in Beijing, who was killed ...

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