China’s five-year plans have been far from perfect. The first four were unmitigated disasters, dominated by Mao’s ideological ...

China has established language schools in almost every African country. But experts believe this is part of a strategy to ...

On September 25, 1881, I stand before Tiananmen. Today, the writer Lu Xun was born in Zhejiang Province, Qing Dynasty. He was ...

As the West speculated about the capabilities of Chinese missiles seen at its huge military parade in Beijing this month, it was their names – inspired by the words of Mao Zedong – that drew attention ...

He was "sent down" to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution but reemerged to interpret for Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai during President Nixon's trip in 1972 and accompanied Deng Xiaoping to the ...

Bill O’Reilly claimed on Monday that former Chinese Communist Chairman Mao Zedong and former Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini were “white” during a bizarre rant about evil. Evil exists, that’s ...

He also titled a section “‘Mao is a Master of Purge.’” Kim stated, “He used every means possible to seize power. In power struggles, he purged even past revolutionary comrades and fellow Long March ...

As Chinese President Xi Jinping moved center stage this week with both a massive show of military might and a very public display of comity with two other great powers, India and Russia, there was ...

Weijian Shan’s life has been one of extraordinary contrasts, from doing hard labor during China’s Cultural Revolution to becoming one of Hong Kong’s most prominent financiers. Shan was 4 years old ...

Donald Trump is not Mao Zedong, and Trump would never be able to march 1,000 miles in pursuit of a goal, but what they have in common is that they both launched a Cultural Revolution, a purification ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “You cannot rely on the government,” Lily Tang Williams told me last year, shortly ...

The difference between this revolution and those in Germany, China, or Iran, is not of kind, but of degree, and only so far. The similarities between the sentiments of extremists in Iran’s government ...