China’s leader draws from autocrats’ playbook to expand power, oust potential rivals and lay groundwork to rule indefinitely.

The Life and Legacy of the 14th Dalai Lama’, by Arvind Yadav. The 14th Dalai Lama was born on this day, July 6, in 1935.

In the Red Army period, Mao Zedong's wife He Zizhen was a legendary woman. In 1925, 16-year-old He Zizhen became the first female party member and the first woman minister in Yongxin County, Jiangxi ...

Yet, the vastly outnumbered Red Army not only survived but also turned the campaign into a pivotal moment in the Long March ...

From the very beginning, the Communist Party of China (CPC) used Marxism and Leninism to guide its struggle in the Chinese revolution. For many years the Party in its inexperience simply applied the ...

While searching for information concerning the South Korean Defense Minister's statement regarding his acceptance of a Mao ...

Architect Xu Yinpei shows off the mausoleum's blueprint at his home in the capital. Wang Ru / China Daily The man who led the construction of Mao Zedong's final resting place reveals his secret ...

June 16 (UPI) --The history of the son of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong is being rewritten under Xi Jinping, according to a recent press report. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the ...

A mere days after its existence became widely known, China’s giant gold Mao Zedong statue is no more. The seated monument, which measured roughly 37 meters tall (121 feet) and cost nearly 3 million ...

Han Shi, the first actor ever to have portrayed late Chairman Mao Zedong. Photos: Cai Xianmin/GT and courtesy of Han Shi Han Shi was the first actor ever to have portrayed late Chairman Mao Zedong, ...

Andy Warhol’s iconic depiction of Chairman Mao Zedong is an instantly recognizable image—both of subject and creator. While the opportunity to collect a well-known work by a star artist such as Warhol ...

Photographer Cristina de Middel's new book Party is meant to question the idea of political power in a playful way. In the book, de Middel has taken the original text from Chairman Mao Zedong’s Little ...