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 .

Mao Zedong built a communist revolution on the discontent of the rural masses, 80 percent of China's population. Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms brought growing prosperity to peasants by allowing ...

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 ...

On December 22, 1968, the People's Daily conveyed Mao Zedong's instructions, saying it is necessary for educated youths to go to rural areas to be re-educated by poor peasants. The move ...

In early 1958, Mao Zedong, the leader of Communist China, ... "The peasants were forced to work long hours every day," says Goldman. "They were totally exhausted by this.

China was in chaos. For a decade, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution deliberately smashed society to bits. People were sent away for brutal re-education. Others simply disappeared. The country … ...

“Mao: The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Knopf, 814 pp., $35. Lord Acton, the British historian, said: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ...