Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions have ... the specter of a lifelong ruler again looms. Here’s a look at how China got from the turbulent rule of Mao to Xi’s nearly ...

The man responsible for our image of Mao Zedong never actually took a photo ... him to sit for a photo and listen to your directions, 'look this way, that way'," Chen says. In 1949, four ...

The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in 1953 when the U.S. and China were on opposite sides of the Korean War.

A lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in October 1949, promising an economic system that would muzzle capitalism's running ...

A trial got underway this week in Oakland, California, to decide the ownership of diaries written by Li Rui, a former secretary to communist China's founder Mao Zedong, who became a vocal critic ...