It may be small and petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Deep below China's bustling heart lies a dank network of secret tunnels and purpose-built rooms that Chairman Mao Zedong once ... is ten minutes away, the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven.

BY the time I stepped off the third plane—legs heavy, eyes fighting sleep, body jetlagged—I knew this wasn’t going to be just another trip. From Lusaka to Dubai, then Dubai to Guangzhou, and finally ...

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist, and the main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Chinese People's ...

Is a trade war a real war, or is it only a metaphor? Going by Chinese state media, the country is drawing inspiration from Mao Zedong’s series of speeches, collectively published as the famous ...

In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable ...

Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chai Jing has revisited and updated her iconic 2012 interview with Gao ...

Thirty one years on after his death, public reverence for late Chinese leader Mao Zedong remains strong ... came all the way from eastern Hangzhou city, accompanying her son to pay reverence ...

Mao Zedong, who led China’s one-party state after World War II, oversaw a fraught and fatal attempt to industrialize the country, known as the Great Leap Forward. His regime was infamous for its ...

to burnish his Marxist credentials into something called “Mao Zedong Thought” by reading orthodox Stalinist primers that had recently been translated into Chinese. Two main things, which shaped his ...

A viral internet trend humorously connects TikTok star The Rizzler to Chairman Mao through a series of celebrity associations, highlighting the absurdity of modern digital historiography.