The aide-de-camp finally rouses himself around 9 a.m., at which time he asks two of his fellow staff officers, Cheng Pu and ...

Less fortunate was the second Olympian, Marshal Peng Dehuai. Peng fell from favor after writing a letter to Mao in 1959 criticizing the Great Leap Forward, leading Mao to label him a “right ...

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 ...

Mao Zedong, pictured here in 1963, was an avid reader of classical literature A collection of handwritten notes by Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China, has been sold at auction for 10 times ...

China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate critical facilities away from the country’s most densely populated areas to its western hinterlands. Mao’s 1964 “Third Front ...

In the biography A True Man - Peng Dehuai, published by the China ... leadership system similar to North Korea's. Mao Anying was Mao Zedong's oldest son and considered an obvious successor to ...

The founder the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, died on September 9, 1976. His departure ushered in a new geopolitical era, in which Switzerland did not want to be left on the sidelines.

Comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong is "inane", scoffs Rebecca Karl ... Hardliners, led by Premier Li Peng, believed the students' goal was to overthrow the party, and wanted the protests quashed.

After occupying Seoul on Jan. 7, 1951, General Peng Dehuai halted to plan the next "phase" of his offensive. Soon afterward the Soviet ambassador to North Korea arrived and announced that he had ...

Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong’s teachings do not embody the theoretical underpinnings of a unique Chinese way of war, but rather demonstrate widely held general principles. “Although their respective ...

Michael Wood explores the origins and rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and the significance of Mao Zedong in the process. The Communists resisted the Nationalists by escaping to Yan'an on the ...