Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. This 'living legacy' is the subject of intense, ongoing debate both within China and throughout the rest of the world.

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 ...

Li Rui, who died in 2019 at the age of 101, held a number of important positions within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, including personal secretary to longtime leader Mao Zedong. In detailed ...

This was one of the pressing questions the Chinese Communist Party leadership faced after the death of Mao Zedong in September 1976 and the ... this book pushes the field of the history of the ...

In the fall of 1949, Mao Zedong stood atop Beijing's Tiananmen gate and proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The United States, however, refused to recognize Mao's Communist ...

A village called Shaoshanchong at the foot of the mountain was where Mao Zedong (1893-1976), the late leader of China was born and grew up. An exhibition hall memorializing Mao's life and ...

Comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong is "inane", scoffs Rebecca Karl, a professor of Chinese History at New York University. "If you're going to compare two people, it has to reveal something.

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.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has underscored the importance of the all-weather strategic partnership between Pakistan and ...

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