The Chinese president’s concept of power was forged by the suffering of his revolutionary father, Xi Zhongxun.

Linda Jaivin’s epic tale of China’s Cultural Revolution brings its players to life – and illustrates the massive scale of its ...

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

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 ...

Mamdani’s own platform may seem more anodyne, but it is a distilled sampler of socialism’s greatest failures: nationalized ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned to power.

Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao.

It also highlighted the institute's vital role as the "cradle of peasant movements". The late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong became the institute's director in 1926 to train peasant leaders to launch ...

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day ...

China’s state media has urged the public to revisit Mao Zedong’s famous 1938 essay “On Protracted War”, saying that it offers “great inspiration for the international struggles of the ...