Be the first to comment. Mao’s Great Leap Forward, an economic policy, led to the deaths of up to 45 million people. Adhering to communist ideals, the state seized control of production.

A viral internet trend humorously connects TikTok star The Rizzler to Chairman Mao through a series of celebrity associations, highlighting the absurdity of modern digital historiography. The ...

“We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations. We don’t back down,” Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Thursday in a post on X.

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s badges were worn ubiquitously by Red Guards and others as a public display of loyalty to the chairman and devotion to the revolution.

Lily Tang Williams, a survivor of Chairman Mao's political purge, says she's having 'PTSD' from watching college campuses become like the China's Cultural Revolution.