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’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.

Inside the Dalai Lama’s succession and what it means for China and the Tibetan struggle - As he turns 90 this week, the Dalai ...

Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the party from 1949 until 1976, is depicted on every monetary bill (renminbi) in the PRC.

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 ...

The concertmaster and first-chair violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra for decades, he took part in a diplomatic breakthrough in 1973 with concerts in Mao Zedong’s Beijing.

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.