Historian Wang Gungwu on China's quest for a unifying national ethos, fusing global insights with heritage to ensure ...

After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Backs straight, heads high, three dozen Communist Party members in red neckties who hope for leadership posts belt out a poem by revolutionary leader Mao Zedong ... leader Deng Xiaoping It is ...

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 ...

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 ...