Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the bloody Chinese “Cultural Revolution” when on August 18 1966 she was photographed overlooking an immense rally in Tiananmen ...

During the Cultural Revolution, a million people were killed or driven to suicide, many for infractions as incidental as making a “politically incorrect” comment or having the wrong family tree. It ...

Michael Browne, a Briton and Christian free-lance journalist, dispatched this report from Hong Kong after a trip last month to Canton, southern provincial capital of Communist China: “Chairman Mao is ...

A controversial political manifesto is being republished in China and some observers say it represents a revival of old political ideology in modern China. Communist leader Mao Tse-tung’s “Quotations ...

If Mao Tse-tung, the founding father of Communist China, were to come back today, he could feel right at home in the ecru-walled house where he grew up. From the front door, he could gaze on the pond ...

With the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth close on the horizon, the Irish Times reports on the festive mood in Shaoshan, Hunan province—the Great Helmsman’s birthplace—and the “delicate ...

BEIJING -- Waitresses in green army uniforms and red "Serve the People" armbands salute customers and greet them with "I swear to Chairman Mao that I will serve you with all my heart." The young women ...

In the 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future, California teen Marty McFly journeyed back in time to save his present. The film’s universal themes are known around the world, and Chinese leader Xi ...

Though no adorer of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, like her father and grandfather, Chen Di, 20, has still found occasion to turn to Mao's famous "little red book". A computer science student at the ...

What does Mao Tse-tung want? He wants Nikita Khrushchev dead. In so many blunt words, Mao told this to a French parliamentary delegation visiting Peking last month. As recalled in Paris last week by ...

A still image from video shows Britain's shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell after throwing Mao's Little Red Book towards the Conservative Party front bench, after Chancellor George ...