Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a ...

Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a ...

Power in modern China accrues at various speeds. For most leaders, it grows at a steady pace, while for a few others, it hurtles forward like a freight train with blinding speed. It took Mao ...

Though the name of Mao Zedong still has resonance around the world, the man who has inherited the mantle of Chinese hero is Deng Xiaoping. While Mao is now mainly associated with the idea of ...

Deng Xiaoping's heirs may rule China, but critics of capitalist socialism are invoking Mao Zedong ahead of next week's Communist Party national congress. Long after their deaths, China's two ...

Deng Xiaoping once appraised the rule of his predecessor as China's paramount leader, Mao Zedong, as being "70 percent positive and 30 percent negative". How would Deng's own performance in office be ...

Chairman Mao Zedong called him the "steel factory" for ... the 120th anniversary of the birth of the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, the seemingly contradictory duality of the man and his ...

Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions ... China’s most powerful leader since strongmen Mao and Deng Xiaoping flouted the recent norms of succession at the party’s key ...

That would be only the third statement of its kind in the party's 100-year history after one issued under Mao Zedong who led the party to power in 1949, and Deng Xiaoping who launched reforms that ...

At the same time, Xi's current position in the party is different to that of former leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping when they initiated the previous resolutions on party history in 1945 and ...

Ji Chaozhu, a veteran Chinese diplomat who provided English translation for leaders including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping and served as an undersecretary of the United Nations, died April 29 in ...

The two others, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, dominated politics in China until their deaths. Having been elevated into that rarified pantheon, there’s now little doubt about how much influence ...