Trump is purging officials, persecuting intellectuals and burnishing his cult of personality. If reason prevails, Americans ...

Imagine a time traveller from Mao Zedong’s China – say a Red Guard – landing in a Chinese city today, nearly half a century ...

A professor with the Yale School of Public Health claimed that Donald Trump is "destroying a generation of knowledge" just like Mao Zedong did during China's Cultural Revolution. Gregg Gonsalves wrote ...

peasants and other soldiers who had gathered for a marathon conference on the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong. This was 1968, nearly two years into the Cultural Revolution, Mao's attempt to purge ...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie is a fascinating tale about the power of literature. Two boys from ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the ... badly with his disastrous Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and other bloody and misguided social ...

In Shanghai Dolls, Madame Mao’s life story of art, revolution and resentment is undone by clichés - 2/5 This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own p ...

"The Bear and The Dragon" explores the tumultuous history between China and Russia from ancient times through the rise of communism. It details China's decline, the establishment of the Republic under ...