Hero of the peasant-backed revolution in 1949, Mao inspired God-like worship among hundreds of millions of Chinese. He took over China promising to bring power to the people through communism .

Seduced by Mao Zedong: Novel imagines one of his teenage lovers, navigating communist treachery and the Cultural Revolution In a new book by East Bay author Vanessa Hua, a peasant girl travels to ...

Today, locals still recount the stories of Peng. Despite being born into a wealthy landowning family, he burned the land ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the ...

Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel. Released On: 03 Jan 2024. Available for over a year. In 1893, Mao is born.

The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in 1953 when the U.S. and China were on opposite sides of the Korean War.

Mao Zedong built China's Communist revolution on the back of the country's impoverished peasants, and now Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants a new economic revolution to take root in the countryside.

O ver the past decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping has initiated a series of hardline moves that hark back to PRC founder Mao Zedong. He justified China’s Zero COVID strategy with Mao’s ...

She welcomes the interrogation. Her recent memoir, “The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao’s Court,” was published last year. The book is the culmination of decades of writing and rewriting ...

One example is the achievement of Peng Shilu, the son of Peng Pai. He was arrested after his father's death, but was rescued and sent to the revolutionary base in Yan'an for education. Later, he was ...