Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: When Mao Anying died, he took with him the possibility of a new Mao dynasty. War has brought a premature end to countless promising young lives in absurd and ...

Mao Zedong died in the early hours of Sept. 9, 1976. He had led the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than four decades and served as head of state since the establishment of the People’s ...

XINYANG, China — Harrowing memories of China’s revolutionary past hang over the rolling wheat fields and scattered villages where the Communist Party’s leader, Xi Jinping, recently visited to ...

BEIJING — Li Rui, who over nearly four decades went from being one of Mao Zedong’s personal secretaries in the 1950s to a Communist Party critic, revisionist historian and standard-bearer for liberal ...