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 ...

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 ...

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.

Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong are long dead and buried. But like Jesus Christ, they are continually resurrected by artists looking to get a rise out of curators, collectors, journalists and ...

Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, a day after the celebration of the birth of Christ. Today, for his hundred-and-twentieth birthday, China’s leaders once again queued up to look at their ...

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.