カテゴリー: Mao Zedong
New York-based Gao Zhen was detained in 2024 during a family visit to China and then tried for ‘defaming national heroes’ The Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, known for making satirical sculptures of China’s former leader Mao Zedong, has been tried …
As ties with Washington sour, China is reviving a cold war strategy to defend against a US attackDotted across the mountainous roads of Sichuan and just a few hours’ drive from some of China’s most bustling cities, the crumbling ruins of an abandoned m…
Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boomAfter years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsman departs and is replaced by a francophile economic…
Rare early editions of book by communist party chairman, who shunned the idea of wealth, set to fetch £1m at auctionThe thoughts of Mao Zedong, published in 1964 under the title Quotations, are considered the blueprint for Chinese communism and a guide…
Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at Chinese communist school
Our twins spent two years at primary school in Chengdu. Their lessons featured alarming cautionary tales and stories of Chinese superiority, but there was fun and irreverence, tooNear the end of third grade, my twin daughters, Ariel and Natasha, offici…
Beijing is believed to be behind court bid to secure account of life inside Communist HQIn the early hours of 4 June 1989, Li Rui, a veteran of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), was standing on the balcony of his apartment on Chang’an Boulevard in cen…
Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefactsThe Little Red Book, a talisman of 20th-century Maoism, may have fallen out of favour in China after the Cultural Revolution, but its popularity with co…
It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness?From a distance, you might have mistaken the…
The Communist party will this week confirm Xi as China’s most powerful leader since Mao. What will his extended term of office mean for the country and for its neighbour Taiwan?This week in Beijing, Xi Jinping will preside over one of his country’s gre…
We should never take free speech for granted, especially if it concerns art, writes John FinlayI read with interest your editorial (The Guardian view on China’s censors: the sense of an (acceptable) ending, 24 August). In 2016, I was about to publish a…
A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threatIt was a big year for Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning Chinese musician who would go on to compose the soun…
The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdomOn a brisk winter day in February 1972, the 34-year-old American diplomat, Winston Lord, arrived in Beijing with his boss, Henry Kissinger, and pr…
Analysts say move is designed to put president on same level as Mao Zedong and Deng XiaopingXi Jinping’s grip on power has received a big boost after the ruling Communist party (CCP) passed a rare “historical resolution” praising the president’s “decis…
As China marks the centenary of its ruling party, we examine key episodes in its tempestuous history, including the Long March, Mao’s purges and Xi Jinping’s rise to the top of an emerging superpowerAnyone visiting First Meeting Hall in Shanghai, the m…
22 April 1949: The Chinese communist revolutionary called for the ‘anti-democratic Kuomintang forces on Chinese territory’ to be wiped outNanking, April 21The Communist Peking radio said to-night that Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader, had issued orde…