To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern world history.

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern world history.

Mao ZeDong.' PRESENTER:They were attracted by its anti-feudal anti-imperialist message, and also by its claim to be scientific, that it held the key not only to history, but to the future.

During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s Chinese people had to carry their Little Red Books, which contained Mao Zedong ideas about Communism. The Cultural Revolution was led by Mao to turn ...

As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and ...

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The chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall stands on the former sits of Zhonghuamen Gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square between the Monument to the People's Heroes and Zhengyangmen Gate.

HONG KONG — The diaries of a top Chinese official and prominent critic of Beijing are at the center of a U.S. legal battle, raising questions about who will write the history of modern China.

As only the third leader to have issued such a report, the move establishes Xi's status as an equal to party founder Mao Zedong and his ... Jinping's status in political history.