The upheavals of the Cultural Revolution left the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party eager for stability, even as forces ...

Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern ... covers Mao's career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893–1949. As an extended official account of Mao, and Mao's thought, this ...

At the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, Bona film announced the launch of the "China victory Trilogy" to present the centenary of the founding of the party. The three films use images to ...

Mao Zedong, often called Chairman Mao, helped found Communist China in 1949 and led it through a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 1970s known as the Cultural Revolution, in which more than a ...

CHINA IN REVOLUTION charts the country's most violent era where decades of civil war and foreign invasions led to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. THE MAO YEARS ...

On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong - or Chairman Mao - announced the formation of the PRC, after communist forces won a bloody civil war. Modern China has since developed at an extraordinary pace ...

Dissident Chinese artist Gao Zhen, internationally known for his provocative sculptures of Mao Zedong, was arrested ... the ...

Figure caption, The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 when the Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, took control. China is a one-party state. The CCP is not elected but remains in ...

The Chinese president leads a ceremony honouring the former leader at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Tuesday Xi tells event ...

Michael Wood explores the origins and rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and the significance of Mao Zedong in the process ... declared in 1949, a success, or did Mao make mistakes?