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Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...
A prominent Chinese artist known for his political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, after police raided his art studio near Beijing.
An internationally acclaimed Chinese artist known for mocking Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been arrested near Beijing. Gao Zhen, who is based in New York, was detained on Monday ...
The Gao Brothers are known for their provocative sculptures, which critique the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, and his regime.
Gordon Chang says the depiction of Mao Zedong on the Chinese Renminbi indicates that 'leftist murderers get a pass' for their crimes.
Chinese foreign affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning invoked Mao Zedong in a video posted to social media amid trade escalations between the U.S. and China.
Dissident Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been detained for sculptures dating from the 2000s that are critical of the Cultural Revolution.
A lawyer from Florida has pleaded guilty to bombing a satirical statue of the Communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in Texas in 2022 and attempting to bomb the Chinese Embassy in ...
Intense internecine battles among the Communist Party elite have been the norm since Mao Zedong took control in 1935.
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 ...
A prominent Chinese artist known for his political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, after police raided his art studio near Beijing.