Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions have mostly eluded the Chinese Communist Party. Though it is one of the world’s largest political entities, it lacks an ...

Souvenirs featuring portraits of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong and China’s President Xi Jinping. REUTERS. The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political purge and persecution of millions ...

Henry Kissinger said Mao Zedong was the "most dangerous" leader he met during his political career. Kissinger cited the 90 million deaths under Mao's regime. Kissinger played a pivotal role in ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech remembering Mao Zedong to push a framework the current leader rolled out recently to counter the West’s capitalist model.. The “central task” of ...

In a new book by East Bay author Vanessa Hua, a peasant girl travels to Beijing to dance for her country’s godlike Communist Party leader in the final, brutal years of his rule.

In the Feb. 7, 1953 speech at the Fourth Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Mao Zedong vowed to keep fighting the Korean War until ...

China’s supreme leader this week urged the People’s Liberation Army to maintain Chinese Communist Party political control over the “guns” of the nation, an echo of the country’s late ...

In the Feb. 7, 1953 speech at the Fourth Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Mao Zedong vowed to keep fighting the Korean War until ...

A prominent Chinese artist known for his scathing political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, according to his brother and artistic partner. Gao Zhen ...

Lily Tang Williams, a survivor of Chairman Mao's political purge, says she's having 'PTSD' from watching college campuses become like the China's Cultural Revolution.