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 ...

News about Mao Zedong, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 ...

It's been almost a week since Glenn Beck ran a segment featuring White House Communications Director Anita Dunn counting Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa among two of her favorite political ...

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 biography paints hair-raising portraitAuthor and Russian scholar Alexander Pantsov gained access to Soviet archives, including KGB dossiers on top Chinese communists, in reaching this ...

Song Binbin, Poster Woman for Mao’s Bloody Upheaval, Dies at 77 She was said to have been involved in the first killing of an educator during the Cultural Revolution, drawing official praise.

Gordon Chang says the depiction of Mao Zedong on the Chinese Renminbi indicates that 'leftist murderers get a pass' for their crimes.

The site of a horrific cult massacre, which saw the deaths of over 900 people, has been controversially opened to tourists.

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.